Hey
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Matt Keating Matt_Keating@dennis.co.uk wrote:
I’ve just started using Amazon S3 for storage and have used s3fs to mount the buckets on the file system.
What type of storage are you using it for. Web-app, Map/Reduce stuff, File-backup, etc ...
I was wondering if anyone has a better method – even though this meets my current needs.
Why do you want to use s3 like a file system? s3 does not have the properties of a posix system so you are bound be get some minor errors and problems.
if there is an automounter that could be tweaked to work with s3fs. The entries in my fstab are rather different to the normal disk based ones,
s3fs#BUCKETNAME /mnt/s3/BUCKETNAME fuse allow_other,default_acl=public-read,noauto 0 0 ,so I wasn’t sure if it is possible.
I hope you are aware that everything you put on your s3 is publicly available if someone knows your bucket name.
I use s3tools to transfer data between s3 and a folder on my machine.
I tried mounting it like you, but just ran into too many problems, especially if you access files from many machines.
Maybe a little more information on your use-case :)
Cheers Didi