Cannot find answer in docs: can garage be used like minio "gateway nas" function? #626

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opened 2023-09-05 17:26:54 +00:00 by sychan · 3 comments

sychan commented

2023-09-05 17:26:54 +00:00

Hello,
I work for a scientific research facility that shares research data publicly. Most of our data for the immediate future resides on conventional posix style storage. The (deprecated) minion gateway nas functionality allowed us to share the data over the S3 protocol to collaborators at remote sites, or over the web.
That feature was turned off almost a year ago, and the CVEs are starting to build up and myself and site admins/systems engineers at other sites are looking for an alternative that is actively supported. Garage looks promising, but there doesn't seem to be any documentation that explicitly says the ability to support legacy POSIX filesystems over the S3 protocol is supported.
Is this a supported feature?

Thanks,
Steve

Hello, I work for a scientific research facility that shares research data publicly. Most of our data for the immediate future resides on conventional posix style storage. The (deprecated) minion gateway nas functionality allowed us to share the data over the S3 protocol to collaborators at remote sites, or over the web. That feature was turned off almost a year ago, and the CVEs are starting to build up and myself and site admins/systems engineers at other sites are looking for an alternative that is actively supported. Garage looks promising, but there doesn't seem to be any documentation that explicitly says the ability to support legacy POSIX filesystems over the S3 protocol is supported. Is this a supported feature? Thanks, Steve

lx commented

2023-09-05 17:43:00 +00:00

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Garage explicitly does not aim at implementing a POSIX filesystem, we are voluntarily limiting ourself to object storage APIs such as S3.

Besides the traditionnal CephFS and GlusterFS, you might be interested in having a look at MooseFS and SeaweedFS.

Garage explicitly [does not aim at implementing a POSIX filesystem](https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/design/goals/), we are voluntarily limiting ourself to object storage APIs such as S3. Besides the traditionnal CephFS and GlusterFS, you might be interested in having a look at MooseFS and SeaweedFS.

lx closed this issue

2023-09-05 17:43:02 +00:00

lx commented

2023-09-05 17:49:02 +00:00

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Uh my bad, I didn't understad well what you were asking. No, functionnality similar to minio gateway is not supported by Garage and it is not planned to be added.