A distributed Posix file system built on top of Redis and S3
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HN comment orderI advocate for using Route 53 as a database and even I think this is terrifying.
Related, "The Design & Implementation of Sprites" [1] (also currently on the front page) mentioned JuiceFS in its stack: > The Sprite storage stack is organized around the JuiceFS model (in fact, we currently use a very hacked-up JuiceFS, with a rewritten SQLite metadata backend). It works by splitting storage into data (“chunks”) and metadata (a map of where the “chunks” are). Data chunks live on object stores; metadata lives in fast local storage. In our case, that metadata store…
Founder of JuiceFS here, we have spent 4 years building it and open sourced it today.
Whatever could go wrong with that, lol But I habe to admit this is impressive and production ready. I certainly can use more visibility.
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-11 | A shared Posix file system built on top of Redis and S3 | ngaut | 19 | 3 |
| 2021-01-11 | JuiceFS – A distributed Posix file system built on top of Redis and S3 | aofeisheng | 5 | 0 |
| 2021-01-12 | A distributed Posix file system built on top of Redis and S3First breakout · Best thread | jerodsanto | 219 | 116 |
| 2023-01-17 | JuiceFS: A distributed Posix file system built on top of Redis and S3 | nateb2022 | 16 | 2 |
| 2023-02-14 | JuiceFS: Turn Cloud Blob Storage into Local Posix Filesystems | jacksgt | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-01-15 | JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3Hall induction · Latest 20+ point return | tosh | 186 | 112 |