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I experimented with similar ideas 11 years ago with the OpenStack counterpart of S3, and basically an object storage is not a real filesystem. You can get away
by reidrac 4y ago
I experimented with similar ideas 11 years ago with the OpenStack counterpart of S3, and basically an object storage is not a real filesystem. You can get away with a FTP/SFTP interface (for example), but that's it. Everybody wants a cheap object storage, but not the fact that what you deal with is "objects".
I wrote a NBD server to proxy to OpenStack Object Storage: https://github.com/reidrac/swift-nbd-server https://github.com/reidrac/swift-nbd-server -- and it was fun, but not that useful.
- tommek4077 4y ago> Everybody wants a cheap object storage [...] Are you sure? I would guess most people want a networked, cheap file system. Not an object-storage.
- Moissanite 4y agoNormal file-systems come with too much baggage - permissions portability between Windows and Linux being the main bugbear for my own use-cases.
- tommek4077 4y agoAnd AWS Rights Management is the pinnacle of this approach.