I'm looking for advice on using s3fs to mount an S3 bucket to four pods in my Kubernetes cluster. I've noticed that many drivers seem to be outdated or discontinued. I specifically have one bucket on S3 and another on Minio, but I can't find a reliable, up-to-date solution for either. What are the best practices for performing operations similar to s3fs? Although I'm not a big fan of this method, I need to make it work for this particular situation. Thanks!
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I've played around with various FUSE implementations for S3, and to be honest, they’ve all been pretty unstable. I'm now leaning towards compatible products instead. S3 wasn't really made to act as a file system, so you might run into issues since it lacks features like appending or a true folder structure under the hood.
That’s true! Expecting S3 to perform like a traditional file system can lead to big headaches. If you're in need of distributed network storage, I've had good luck with Ceph. It’s solid for scaling out your cluster, but just keep in mind it's not the fastest option.