Using Goofys with S3
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Using Goofys with S3¶
Goofys filey system is a POSIX-like file system for use with S3 (or similar) cloud storage solutions.
OSX
It can be installed in a variety of ways, as documented in the repository; for OSX, it requires the additional osxfuse dependency. The full installation is thus available with brew
brew cask install osxfuse
brew install goofys
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Mounting S3¶
We can mount an S3 bit bucket to our local file system with the command
goofys [bucketname] [path/to/mount]
which reads the [default] profile in .aws/credentials.
Using MinIO¶
Goofys can also be used (although currently limited, though the limit isn’t well documented) with MinIO; this requires a small amount of additional setup, namely creating a new profile in .aws/credentials with
[profile_name]
aws_access_key_id = YOUR_MINIO_ACCESS_KEY
aws_secret_access_key = YOUR_MINIO_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
We can then create the mount point, and, if needed, I would encourage the use of chown ; avoid running goofys as root for file permission reasons. There can also be some odd behaviour on OSX if trying to mount to /Volumes/*, which chown may be able to remedy.
Goofys accepts two additional flags to mount the MinIO bucket, namely
goofys \
--profile YOUR_MINIO_PROFILE_NAME \
--endpoint http://yourminio.server \
[bucketname] [path to mount]