goofys VS headscale

Compare goofys vs headscale and see what are their differences.

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goofys headscale
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goofys

Posts with mentions or reviews of goofys. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-19.
  • Is Posix Outdated?
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2023
    The author needs to ask themselves: in this cloud technology stack, is there POSIX involved somewhere lower down, where I can't access it? The answer is, of course, "yes". The sort of cloud storage systems described all run on top of POSIX APIs. They provide convenience (cost efficiency is more debatable) compared to the POSIX alternative, but that's because they exist at an entirely different conceptual layer (hence the presence of POSIX anyway, just buried).

    Your point about surfacing a POSIX that's actually there but hidden and thus visible to low-level Amazon employees building the S3 service which makes it invisible to S3 end customers is true but isn't the the point of the article. The author is saying there are motivations for a POSIX-like api visible also the end user.

    So your explanation of stack looks like 2 layers: POSIX api <-- AWS S3 built on top of that

    Author's essay is actually talking about 3 layers: POSIX <-- AWS S3 <-- POSIX

    That's why the blog post has the following links to POSIX-on-top-of-S3-objects :

    https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse

    https://github.com/kahing/goofys

    https://www.cuno.io/

  • AWS Announces Open Source Mountpoint for Amazon S3
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Mar 2023
    How is this different than these other solutions?

    https://github.com/kahing/goofys

    https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse

  • Introducing Mountpoint for Amazon S3 - A file client that translates local file system API calls to S3 object API calls like GET and LIST.
    4 projects | /r/aws | 14 Mar 2023
    But now I ask.. why not s3fs? Is it the GPL licensing? Or even goofys that also have Apache2 licensing and seems to hit similar goals (non fully POSIX compliant)? Why build your own?
  • Merge my S3 with Mac Finder Folder
    3 projects | /r/aws | 12 Nov 2022
  • Migrating instance to AWS GovCloud
    1 project | /r/aws | 1 Nov 2022
    If your 20TB is in S3, use a staging box with goofys (https://github.com/kahing/goofys) to mount the commercial S3 bucket(s) into a folder, then use s3 sync to copy to your bucket(s) in GovCloud.
  • How should I go about creating a program that holds various MP4 files?
    3 projects | /r/golang | 27 Aug 2022
  • Raft Consensus Animated
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Aug 2022
  • How do you manage large training datasets?
    1 project | /r/computervision | 2 Jun 2022
    So, we just need to change the dataloader function a bit to make this work then. Did you try just mounting S3 using https://github.com/kahing/goofys. In this case, we need not even change the dataloader code. Not sure of the performance though.
  • Mount S3 Objects to Kubernetes Pods
    2 projects | dev.to | 31 Jan 2022
    We're using goofys as the mounting utility. It's a "high-performance, POSIX-ish Amazon S3 file system written in Go" based on FUSE (file system in user space) technology.
  • What you gonna add to your selfhost stack this year?
    18 projects | /r/selfhosted | 2 Jan 2022
    will probably experiment with https://github.com/kahing/goofys and https://litestream.io/ to make services more easily moved between the devices :) Also, will continue working on https://synpse.net/ to make the operations easier.

headscale

Posts with mentions or reviews of headscale. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-04.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing goofys and headscale you can also consider the following projects:

s3fs-fuse - FUSE-based file system backed by Amazon S3

tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

rclone - "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files

Netmaker - Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks.

gcsfuse - A user-space file system for interacting with Google Cloud Storage

zero-ui - ZeroUI - ZeroTier Controller Web UI - is a web user interface for a self-hosted ZeroTier network controller.

juicefs - JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3.

netbird - Connect your devices into a single secure private WireGuard®-based mesh network with SSO/MFA and simple access controls.

catfs - Cache AnyThing filesystem written in Rust

ZeroTier - A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth

s3fs - S3 Filesystem

Nebula - A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security