Minio

Infrastructure

object storage server

SHOW HN2016

49points
9comments
#740of 2,264 in 2016
Top 33%of 2016 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

3 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.04.

Performance: 1 for, 0 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Very easy to get started with

    From 1 comment
    • I tried minio and was really impressed with how easy it is to get started. But I couldn't figure out how to scale it or make it reliable. Having my entire system depend on a…
      devplusops on HN
  • Least painful S3 server implementation to use

    From 1 comment
    • Cool! The continuous async replication feature you mention would be ideal, especially if it's setup so that I can use consul/etcd/... to automatically elect a "master". If you…
      devplusops on HN

Objections

  • Single node only; no clustering or distributed mode yet

    From 2 comments
    • While I commend the developers of Minio for building what appears to be a functional S3-API-compatible system in Go Lang it seems to me to be missing the key thing that makes S3…
      gregburd on HN
    • I tried minio and was really impressed with how easy it is to get started. But I couldn't figure out how to scale it or make it reliable. Having my entire system depend on a…
      devplusops on HN
  • Single server is a reliability risk

    From 1 comment
    • I tried minio and was really impressed with how easy it is to get started. But I couldn't figure out how to scale it or make it reliable. Having my entire system depend on a…
      devplusops on HN
  • No disk quota support

    From 1 comment
    • Cool! The continuous async replication feature you mention would be ideal, especially if it's setup so that I can use consul/etcd/... to automatically elect a "master". If you…
      devplusops on HN

Requests

  • Built-in disk quotas

    From 1 comment
    • Good point @devplusops. Disk quota should be built into Minio. Will add it to the roadmap.
      unlocksmith on HN
  • Continuous replication and master election

    From 1 comment
    • Cool! The continuous async replication feature you mention would be ideal, especially if it's setup so that I can use consul/etcd/... to automatically elect a "master". If you…
      devplusops on HN
  • Clarify roadmap toward distributed operation

    From 1 comment
    • While I commend the developers of Minio for building what appears to be a functional S3-API-compatible system in Go Lang it seems to me to be missing the key thing that makes S3…
      gregburd on HN

Questions

  • Is the project intended to scale across nodes?

    From 2 comments
    • While I commend the developers of Minio for building what appears to be a functional S3-API-compatible system in Go Lang it seems to me to be missing the key thing that makes S3…
      gregburd on HN
    • I tried minio and was really impressed with how easy it is to get started. But I couldn't figure out how to scale it or make it reliable. Having my entire system depend on a…
      devplusops on HN

Alternatives named

  • Skylable

    From 1 comment
    • I tried minio and was really impressed with how easy it is to get started. But I couldn't figure out how to scale it or make it reliable. Having my entire system depend on a…
      devplusops on HN
  • ZFS volumes for quotas

    From 1 comment
    • Cool! The continuous async replication feature you mention would be ideal, especially if it's setup so that I can use consul/etcd/... to automatically elect a "master". If you…
      devplusops on HN

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