AzureFS
Infrastructure
cloud storage filesystem
SHOW HN2012
How HN took it
2 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Execution: 0 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful idea and clear use case for cron-based uploads of log files
From 1 comment
I didn't really understand the use case for this until the last paragraph. Might help others: ...imagine there’s a case where you would like to upload your daily log files to the…
michaelkscott on HN
Objections
Remote storage over FUSE trades consistency or speed; caching can cause inconsistency
From 1 comment
The problem with such remote storage APIs and fuse is that you should sacrifice consistency or speed. I once tried out a s3 wrapper and it was caching some data about fs and…
rssems on HN
Every file open downloads the whole blob, which is inefficient
From 1 comment
Nice. But it seems some easy improvements are possible: Do you really need to call get_blob(), downloading the entire blob, when a file is opened? Similarly, in read() you always…
anonymouz on HN
Not working on OS X; maker says not all features work
From 1 comment
I coded it and tested it a little bit. Not all features work and I don't recommend you to use it. OSX issues kinda different filesystem calls that I should have been handled but…
aalpb on HN
Requests
Use byte-range reads instead of downloading entire blobs
From 2 comments
Nice. But it seems some easy improvements are possible: Do you really need to call get_blob(), downloading the entire blob, when a file is opened? Similarly, in read() you always…
anonymouz on HNThat's a great point thank you. I will fix it.
aalpb on HN
Test OS X compatibility
From 1 comment
Has anyone tested this for OS X compatibility?
timrogers on HN
Questions
Why Azure Storage rather than AWS S3
From 1 comment
Very interesting. I wonder why did you choose Azure Storage over AWS S3.
thepumpkin1979 on HN
How it compares to sshfs speed
From 1 comment
Do you know which side sshfs falls on? I'm guessing slow?
jlgreco on HN
Alternatives named
S3 filesystem mounts
From 1 comment
There are already solutions that can mount s3 as file system, for years. I know it is more widespread but I work for Microsoft Azure and I provided a solution that didn't exist…
aalpb on HN
sshfs
From 1 comment
Do you know which side sshfs falls on? I'm guessing slow?
jlgreco on HN
Dropbox filesystem weekend project (DoITLive)
From 1 comment
Here's a weekend project with a similar goal, but aimed at Dropbox. Still needs a bit of work though.. https://github.com/Modoatk/DoITLive
modo_ on HN
Haskell Azure blob CLI (azurify)
From 1 comment
One of my recent weekend projects was implementing a simple command-line interface to the Azure blob storage in Haskell. It's not quite finished, but may still be useful to some.…
ArnoVanLumig on HN