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> Biggest difference so far is that Minio is just files on disk Minio _was_ just files on disk. They don't support that mode anymore since 2022-10-29 (see the
by kilburn 4y ago
> Biggest difference so far is that Minio is just files on disk
Minio _was_ just files on disk. They don't support that mode anymore since 2022-10-29 (see the big yellow warning box at [1]).
[1] https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/operations/install-deploy-manage/deploy-minio-single-node-single-drive.html https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/operations/install-deploy-ma...
- seized 4y agoAh interesting. I found it appealing to always have a way to get at the data natively as a worst case for restores. The whole use case is for Vertical Backup (from the maker of Duplicacy) to back up VMs.
- aftbit 4y agoYeah, I have actually frozen Minio at this older version in my stack, as "just files on disk" was the primary feature that drew me to it. I don't want my data locked into some custom format. I'd be willing to bet that ZFS will still be supported in 20 years, but I would not make the same bet about Minio. For the same reason, it looks like Garage is not an option for my use case.
- soulmachine 4y agoI use this "just files on disk" feature too, I also use ZFS. I have a bunch of crawlers uploading data to AWS S3, but S3 is too expensive, I replaced S3 with MinIO. MinIO stores plain files on disk, which makes it a lot easier to access my data. I can read files without calling MinIO APIs, the speed is super fast. By the way, which old version are you using? I'm using RELEASE.2022-04-26T01-20-24Z
- aftbit 4y agoWell... right now I am using minio version RELEASE.2021-08-31T05-46-54Z. However I really ought to upgrade that to the last supported version.