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But S3 is not a file system, is an object storage :) The requirements are different.
by reidrac 12y ago
But S3 is not a file system, is an object storage :) The requirements are different.
- spacemanmatt 12y agoTell me more about how files are not objects and filesystems are not storage!
- reidrac 12y agoS3 as object storage doesn't have a hierarchical structure compared with most file system and it won't support all the operations expected in a POSIX file system (eg, no write append, renaming is implemented as copy-then-delete, ...). S3 works closer to a key/value store than to a file system. To be honest my comment was based on OpenStack Object Storage and I can't say if S3 works exactly like that, but being OpenStack kind of a clone I suspect it does.