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a high-performance, POSIX-ish Amazon S3 file system written in Go

23 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 5 stories, 18 comments · first 2015-10-16 · latest 2026-04-08

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  1. There's also https://github.com/kahing/goofys , a Go equivalent. A bit of a dead project these days.
    comment by bmurphy1976 · 2026-04-08 · in S3 Files
  2. …it can back the folder and not actually take up space on the local machine (except for a cache). https://github.com/kahing/goofys
    comment by EGreg · 2025-06-11 · in Show HN: S3mini – Tiny and fast S3-compatible client, no-deps, edge-ready
  3. …post has the following links to POSIX-on-top-of-S3-objects : https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse https://github.com/kahing/goofys https://www.cuno.io/
    comment by jasode · 2023-10-19 · in Is POSIX really outdated?
  4. How is this different than these other solutions? https://github.com/kahing/goofys https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse
    comment by jasonjayr · 2023-03-27 · in AWS Announces Open Source Mountpoint for Amazon S3
  5. …https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14633686/possible-to-sym... And some cool github links: - https://github.com/kahing/goofys -- a high-performance, POSIX-ish Amazon S3 file system written in Go - https://github.com/maxogden/mount-url --…
    comment by graderjs · 2023-01-07 · in Symlink to a URL
  6. Some examples: - https://github.com/kahing/goofys - https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse
    comment by geethree · 2022-08-17 · in Raft Consensus Animated (2014)
  7. …there under readdir(2) with the expected metadata? Well, an object-storage FUSE filesystems, e.g. https://github.com/kahing/goofys , would make PG just as happy, because PG could see all the right files as "being there" under readdir(2),…
    comment by derefr · 2021-11-13 · in Scalable PostgreSQL Connection Pooler
  8. https://github.com/kahing/goofys/ can detect public bucket automatically and not require prior setup. https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil works as well (despite it's from google it works fine with s3) iirc
    comment by khc · 2020-03-24 · in In praise of S3
  9. …to S3, and so you're much better off using compression to get better performance. As author of https://github.com/kahing/goofys/ I respectfully disagree :-)
    comment by khc · 2020-02-27 · in Loading NumPy arrays from disk: mmap() vs. Zarr/HDF5
  10. Define big data? Have you tried https://github.com/kahing/goofys/ ? Disclaimer: I am the author
    comment by khc · 2019-10-15 · in Apache Arrow Flight: A Framework for Fast Data Transport
  11. It support Azure too. https://github.com/kahing/goofys/blob/master/bench/azure/REA...
    comment by ngaut · 2019-08-24 · in Goofys: A high-performance, Posix-ish Amazon S3 file system written in Go
  12. I learned go and wrote https://github.com/kahing/goofys in a month, and learned rust and wrote https://github.com/kahing/catfs in about the same amount of time
    comment by khc · 2018-05-05 · in Ask HN: How long does it take you to learn a new language?
  13. It did ok for the most part, except it also suggested "goofys" as a tag for https://github.com/kahing/goofys .
    comment by khc · 2017-08-30 · in Topic Suggestions for Millions of Repositories
  14. goofys - https://github.com/kahing/goofys/ - like s3fs except a lot faster catfs - https://github.com/kahing/catfs/ - generic disk cache for fuse filesystems
    comment by khc · 2017-08-10 · in Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
  15. Open source project so not quite a "site": submitted goofys ( https://github.com/kahing/goofys/ ) 644 days ago and had 40 upvotes on HN, and from what I recall I had a couple hundred stars on github right after. Now I am approaching 900…
    comment by khc · 2017-07-24 · in Ask HN: HNers who got their “Show HNs” on homepage, how is your site doing now?
  16. https://github.com/kahing/goofys/ I've been spending what free time I have on this. It started out as a curious project to learn Go and to prove that a useful and good s3fs like project can be done relatively quickly. These days it's used…
    comment by khc · 2017-04-04 · in Ask HN: What are you working on?
  17. I am surprised more people don't know about it. I get questions like https://github.com/kahing/goofys/issues/158 every now and then and to be fair I don't think they market it well: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/migrating…
    comment by khc · 2017-02-28 · in Ask HN: Is S3 down?
  18. …use s3proxy for this, which works fine as long as you are ok with having Java as a test dependency: https://github.com/kahing/goofys/blob/master/test/run-tests....
    comment by khc · 2016-08-31 · in AWS S3 open source alternative written in Go