KHkhc·Aug 30, 2017
It did ok for the most part, except it also suggested "goofys" as a tag for https://github.com/kahing/goofys.
In Topic Suggestions for Millions of Repositorieskahing
goofys
Go2015–2026
kahing / goofys
goofys
a high-performance, POSIX-ish Amazon S3 file system written in Go
9Distinct people
23Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
5.6KGitHub stars
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What it is
a high-performance, POSIX-ish Amazon S3 file system written in Go
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Where it is used
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Also in these discussions
- kahing/catfs · linked in 4 of the same discussions
- s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse · linked in 3 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
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Observed mentions: 2015-10-16 23:08:12 UTC to 2026-04-08 01:04:51 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesgoofys - https://github.com/kahing/goofys/ - like s3fs except a lot faster
catfs - https://github.com/kahing/catfs/ - generic disk cache for fuse filesystems
In Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?Open source project so not quite a "site": submitted goofys (https://github.com/kahing/goofys/) 644 days ago and had 40 upvotes on HN, and from what I recall I had a couple hundred stars on github right after. Now I am approaching 900 stars, a niche community of users, and occasional drive-by contributions.
Compare to catfs (https://github.com/kahing/catfs/) which I recently posted but did not make to front page, and right now it's at 14 stars. I would say both projects have similar audiences comparable in complexity, which would mean front page on HN gave goofys a 20x or so boost in terms of github stars.
Note that the first time I posted goofys it did not make it to front page. @dang emailed me to re-post it and the second time it was boosted to front page.
In Ask HN: HNers who got their “Show HNs” on homepage, how is your site doing now?https://github.com/kahing/goofys/
I've been spending what free time I have on this. It started out as a curious project to learn Go and to prove that a useful and good s3fs like project can be done relatively quickly. These days it's used by companies moving PBs of storage into S3 to research labs trying to analysis RNA sequences with 100s of machines.
A couple things I hope to get done this year:
* a reasonably easy way to use it in conjunction of docker
* a reasonably easy way to expose this over NFS/CIFS (for devices/OSes that don't support fuse)
* a reasonably easy way to do caching
A bigger vision is to build more things on top of relatively commoditized web services so free software can adapt to the 21st century without a large operating budget.
In Ask HN: What are you working on?I am surprised more people don't know about it. I get questions like https://github.com/kahing/goofys/issues/158 every now and then and to be fair I don't think they market it well: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/migrating
Disclosure: I don't work for google but have an upcoming interview there.
In Ask HN: Is S3 down?Goofys v0.0.10 – cheaper, better, and faster (tests)
1 points · Open discussion