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I'm definitely one of those who treat it like a filesystem :') . I'd love to hear a different point of view. Would you feel ok to share thoughts on how I could

• manigandham 6y ago
  That entirely depends on what you're using it for. Mimicking a typical block-level filesystem with object storage will lead to problems beyond a few thousand objects or shallow "folder" levels. Object storage is best for larger files with bulk updates. Either write new files entirely (best for S3) or append/replace where supported (like Azure/GCP). Any further structure and metadata should be maintained at a higher level with pointers to the raw files in the object store. There are products like Stablebit Cloud Drive [1], ObjectiveFS [2], and other storage companies that handle all this for you. You can also look UtahFS [3] to see open-source code on building something yourself. 1) https://stablebit.com/CloudDrive https://stablebit.com/CloudDrive 2) https://objectivefs.com/ https://objectivefs.com/ 3) https://blog.cloudflare.com/utahfs/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/utahfs/