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I had previously used seaweedfs, which has more moving parts but seems more feature-rich. It was overkill for a homelab, so I went to garage. Garage is very stable, but the metadata engine / file MUST live on NVMe. Otherwise it gets slow on small files. It also lacks features like per bucket retention settings and stuff. It really is "just" a S3 bucket.
I use JuiceFS https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs if you think the Chinese are worth the trust
Often just spinning up `localstack` works well, even if only for S3. Gives you other AWS services if you ever need them.
I had previously used seaweedfs, which has more moving parts but seems more feature-rich. It was overkill for a homelab, so I went to garage. Garage is very stable, but the metadata engine / file MUST live on NVMe. Otherwise it gets slow on small files. It also lacks features like per bucket retention settings and stuff. It really is "just" a S3 bucket.
Just use the damn file system. Why does everyone have to put HTTP between everything?
Sometimes I also want a smaller version for when I don't need that performance but don't want multiple implementations of storage backends
Edit: before someone says NVMe, highly available across 3 fault domains
> 2026-03-02: Ruohang Feng has forked MinIO to pgsty/minio and is promising to maintain a stable, CVE-patched, distribution. This is what I went with. I use it in end to end tests as an S3 simulator that starts and stops instantly and reads & writes to a local directory, - as you'd expect it's great in that role. No complaints. Given the fork's maintainer puts their real name on it & stakes their reputation, you'd as…
According to https://github.com/pgsty/silo it's pgsty/silo now: > Renamed from pgsty/minio to pgsty/silo, default branch master → main, on 2026-08-06
I heard good news about SeaweedFS
I use JuiceFS https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs if you think the Chinese are worth the trust
In the decades that open-source projects have existed on GitHub—even those backed by the Chinese government—there has never been an instance of them containing spyware; conversely, we frequently see NSA hacking tools exploiting open-source projects to launch massive cyberattacks and cause data breaches. Reality isn't like American movies where Americans are always the heroes; in fact, those GIs are usually the ones d…