graceofs

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Cofounder of ObjectiveFS cloud filesystem https://objectiveFS.com
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Comment · 11 years ago
Thanks! We plan to publish a feature comparison table soon. A couple more differences:

1. We have strong end-to-end integrity checks and encryption on by default.

2. Amazon EFS's performance is dependent on the filesystem size: larger filesystems include more iops.

Comment · 11 years ago
s3fs-fuse is a one-to-one mapping and doesn't do things like atomic rename of directories, mutual exclusion of open exclusive, append to file requires rewriting the whole file and no hard links. This breaks the expectations of many linux programs.

Our implementation has these features and works with linux programs.

Comment · 11 years ago
Hi Ben, thanks for your feedback. We will add more technical details and clarify the differences between objectivefs and s3fs-fuse.

ObjectiveFS is a log structured filesystem that we implemented completely from scratch. It is a POSIX filesystem and works with the existing Linux and OS X tools and software.

Comment · 11 years ago
It's a complete POSIX filesystem, and we implement a log-structured filesystem on top of S3. So, you can use it with your regular programs expecting POSIX semantics.

Mounting S3 lets you view the objects in a bucket, but it doesn't behave like a regular file system.

Comment · 11 years ago
Thanks for letting me know. We are getting a lot of traffic, and working on fixing it.

UPDATE: the website should be faster now.

Comment · 11 years ago
Congrats, Yuri!
Comment · 11 years ago
Thanks for your insightful comment. We are currently competing with NFS, GlusterFS & other distributed file systems. Our software is much easier to use, requires no storage cluster maintenance and has no single point of failure.

I like your suggestion on the pitch, especially the "NFS that doesn't suck". :-) We will work on improving our pitch. Thanks again!

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