Hey On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Matt Keating <Matt_Keating at 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 -- Hoffmann Geerd-Dietger http://contact.ribalba.de