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A simple, high-throughput file client for mounting an Amazon S3 bucket as a local file system.

9 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 1 story, 8 comments · first 2023-03-14 · latest 2026-04-07

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  1. …(especially when it comes to caching) solution would be appreciated. I thought that would be their https://github.com/awslabs/mountpoint-s3 . But no mention about this one either. S3 files does have the advantage of having a "shared" cache…
    comment by luke5441 · 2026-04-07 · in S3 Files
  2. AWS has this "mountpoint for s3" thingy https://github.com/awslabs/mountpoint-s3
    comment by zokier · 2025-10-05 · in NFS at 40 – Remembering the Sun Microsystems Network File System
  3. How does this compare to https://github.com/awslabs/mountpoint-s3 ?
    comment by Jayakumark · 2024-11-18 · in Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS
  4. ... or does "S3 file system" mean https://github.com/awslabs/mountpoint-s3 - a Rust project by AWS Labs that provides "a simple, high-throughput file client for mounting an Amazon S3 bucket as a local file system" ?
    comment by simonw · 2024-04-05 · in Row Zero and Viewport Data Streaming
  5. Looks like support for S3 Express was merged in with version 1.30 just a few hours ago https://github.com/awslabs/mountpoint-s3/pull/642
    comment by halz · 2023-11-29 · in S3 Express Is All You Need
  6. mountpoint-s3 is AWS’ first party solution for mounting s3 buckets as file systems: https://github.com/awslabs/mountpoint-s3 Haven’t used it but it looks cool, if a bit immature.
    comment by easton · 2023-09-06 · in Gcsfuse: A user-space file system for interacting with Google Cloud Storage
  7. …some really confusing use of unsafe going on. For example I'm not sure what they're doing here: https://github.com/awslabs/mountpoint-s3/blob/main/mountpoin...
    comment by mlindner · 2023-03-14 · in Mountpoint – file client for S3 written in Rust, from AWS
  8. …in theory, allow for out of order writes, existing partial object re-use, and file appends. [1] https://github.com/awslabs/mountpoint-s3/blob/main/doc/SEMAN... [2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/mpuove... [3]…
    comment by ary · 2023-03-14 · in Mountpoint – file client for S3 written in Rust, from AWS
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    Mountpoint – file client for S3 written in Rust, from AWS
    story by ranman · 2023-03-14 · 96 comments