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"POSIX file system for the web" is kind of the whole deal for the company that wrote this. They make something to mount object storage as a filesystem.

This isn't a random programmer philosophising about POSIX, it's an ad for a product.

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Hi, author here.

Yes, we're a startup. With cunoFS, we've made it possible to leverage the lower cost and higher throughput of object storage like S3, and make it work transparently with functions like e.g. mmap(), chmod(), execve(), renameat2().

> (...) leverage the lower cost and higher throughput of object storage like S3 (...)

What do you mean by "lower cost (...) of object storage like S3"? Isn't S3 terribly expensive? I recall S3 costs around 10$/month per TB you park there without doing anything to it, and AWS charges basically for everything you do to those objects over a network.

Not to mention that apparently we're supposed to compare that to storing on your local harddisk. Isn't local storage always far higher throughput than accessing something across the internet? Being able to store and access stuff on the internet as if it's local is a great idea, but the way they sell it is unconvincing and sounds like they don't really understand what they're talking about.

Hi author here, sorry I missed this post. The performance benchmarks and cost comparisons are for comparing S3 vs EBS (ext4 formatted), EFS, FSx Lustre and others within the same datacenter (i.e. LAN use case rather than WAN use case). That means if you have an EC2 instance running in, say AWS Ohio, and are comparing those storage options also within AWS Ohio, then cunoFS is both cheaper and higher throughput than those other options. It's a different story over WAN. In that case, your own local NVMe storage is going to be cheaper and generally faster that remote storage over a WAN. But that local NVMe storage (on say your solo laptop) isn't going to have anywhere near the Enterprise-grade redundancy, availability and scalability that AWS S3/Azure Blob/Storj/Wasabi/etc has.

It smells like a bunch of FUD to me

Software needs fewer priest wannabes declaring ends of so-called eras. The death cult admiring endless updates and changes needs to be gone

FUD is common both ways. Your comment could be interpreted as FUD against anything new.

I take it you don't use linux, containers, kubernetes, the cloud, or html5 - but lots of other people do ;-)

Yeah, I use all of those. But what I can't really use is some low-rent sales copy trying to persuade me to abandon FOSS tooling in favor of yet another rent-seeking cloud solution.

New != Good

Agreed, with only one slight quibble: content can be good even when the purpose is sales.

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