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Tell me more about how files are not objects and filesystems are not storage!
by spacemanmatt 12y ago
Tell 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.