alt Hacker NewsWhat is the use case for implementing a POSIX filesystem on top of an object store? I remember reading this article a few years ago, which happens to be by the minio folks: https://blog.min.io/filesystem-on-object-store-is-a-bad-idea...
What is the use case for implementing a POSIX filesystem on top of an object store? I remember reading this article a few years ago, which happens to be by the minio folks: https://blog.min.io/filesystem-on-object-store-is-a-bad-idea...
> What is the use case for implementing a POSIX filesystem on top of an object store?
The use case is fully stateless infrastructure: your file/database servers become disposable and interchangeable (no "pets"), because all state lives in S3. This dramatically simplifies operations, scaling, and disaster recovery, and it's cheap since S3 (or at least, S3 compatible services) storage costs are very low.
The MinIO article's criticisms don't really apply here because ZeroFS doesn't store files 1:1 to S3. It uses an LSM-tree database backed by S3, which allows it to implement proper POSIX semantics with actual performance.