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oh interesting, I'd love to mount this to Finder on Mac, and load a bunch of massive bioinformatics databases on there and treat it like another folder

I'm also using Cloudflare R2 (S3 compatible) and would love for that to work out of the box

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I know a lot of folks have asked me for local support, and while I can share that this would work from OS X -- it's not something that I would recommend doing outside of a data center because the semantics of a networked file system on a sporadic internet connection (when compared to a data center) aren't great -- unless you're doing something higher level like Dropbox. However, it's something we're considering for next year.

You can use rclone mount, depends on how much you're flipping through files or actually doing lots of IO

I wouldn't want to host fastqs or something and use this for alignment, but for spot checking raw fastqs it could be nice

This reminds me on using rclone mount on Terrabytes of data and I mostly wanted some "smaller" files between 200kb-1.5MB in a single directory. I made rclone mount significantly faster when rclone mount caches into a Ramdisk (there is a free tool to make Ramdisks on macOS too).

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