[Bug 435155] Review Request: fuse-s3fs - Fuse filesystem for amazon.com's S3 storage service

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Summary: Review Request: fuse-s3fs - Fuse filesystem for amazon.com's S3 storage service


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435155





------- Additional Comments From nhorman at redhat.com  2008-03-11 22:40 EST -------
"rpm and/or man page) should have a BIG warning until fuse-s3fs get stabilised"
I actually had a warning on the project page and removed it as I am reasonably
confident in its stability.  I do however take your point since its not seen
widespread use.  I'll add a warning to the rpm description.

"...What is this format ?"
It is precisely what I indicated it was.  All the metadata for the fs is stored
in a python class that is pickled.  If you want to see what the data structure
looks like, all you need to do is look at the s3fs code.  Trying to describe it
in words I don't think would serve any additional purpose.  If you need
specifics, you can look at the S3DriveMetaData class.  thats the one that gets
pickled.   This is of course not compatible with most other tools.  However,
metadata aside, the files themselves that you store in s3fs are stored directly
as individual files (stored as their fully qualified path names).  As such, even
if the metadata gets corrupted (or reformatted), the files are still present on
S3.  While they won't be seen from an s3fs mount, they can still be retrieved
via a web interface (like www.s3browse.com).


"From de man page :
- "-f <bucket> Format  an  s3  bucket to make it suitable for mounting"

Format and so destroy all previous data ?"

no acutally (as per my previous paragraph)

"The man page does not give the default values"
for the mount options?  I can add that.

I'll also reconcile the drive/bucket discrepancy, as they are, as you have
likely guessed, synonomous.

I have a class to teach tomorrow, but I'll try to get to these and repost in the
afternoon.
Thanks!

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