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Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS

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Re: Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS

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Founder of JuiceFS here, congrats to the Launch! I'm super excited to see more people doing creative things in the using-S3-as-file-system space. When we started JuiceFS back in 2017, applied YC for 2 times but no luck. We are still working hard on it, hoping that we can help people with different workloads with different tech!

As someone who is already happily using JuuceFS, perhaps you can provide a short list of differences (conceptual and/or technical). Thanks for a great product.

Re: Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS

#242

Founder of JuiceFS here, congrats to the Launch! I'm super excited to see more people doing creative things in the using-S3-as-file-system space. When we started JuiceFS back in 2017, applied YC for 2 times but no luck. We are still working hard on it, hoping that we can help people with different workloads with different tech!

I'm a happy and satisfied JuiceFS user here, so I too would be interested in the difference between these. Is the Regatta key point caching?

Re: Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS

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post #242

Founder of JuiceFS here, congrats to the Launch! I'm super excited to see more people doing creative things in the using-S3-as-file-system space. When we started JuiceFS back in 2017, applied YC for 2 times but no luck. We are still working hard on it, hoping that we can help people with different workloads with different tech!

I'm a happy and satisfied JuiceFS user here, so I too would be interested in the difference between these. Is the Regatta key point caching?

Also a user of JuiceFS, replaced a GlusterFS cluster a few years ago, far cheaper and easier to scale with no issues or changes needed to the applications using GlusterFS.

Re: Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS

#245
Was taking a look at pricing features - melted down, paying per month doesn't seem like a bad option; still, the API features 1 hour SLA support for enterprise tier subscribers.

S3 bucket systems for cloud hosting services are typically encrypted through AES-256. SSE-S3 or SSE-KMS are available upon request.

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-s3-encryption-se...

Having the API hosted on Regatta's servers but integrating a POSIX-compliant bring-your-own compute would tighten up instance storage fees for the end-user.

[1]:https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-s3-encryption-se...

Re: Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS

#247

I used the same approach based on Rclone for a long time. I wondered what makes Regatta Storage different than Rclone. Here is the answer: "When performing mutating operations on the file system (including writes, renames, and directory changes), Regatta first stages this data on its high-speed caching layer to provide strong consistency to other file clients." [0]. Rclone, on the contrary, has no layer that would gu…

I suppose rclone doesn't provide byte range file locking? Running sqlite over rclone would be a disaster.

Re: Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS

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post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hiring someone who knows how to manage bare metal (with failover and stuff) may take time %)

You pay a datacenter to put it in a rack and add connect power and uplinks, then treat it like a big ec2 instance (minus the built-in firewall). Now you just need someone who knows how to secure an ec2 instance and run your preferred software there (with failover and stuff). If you run a single-digit number of servers and replace them every 5 years you will probably never get a hardware failure. If you're unlucky and…

sounds like an opportunity for someone (you?) to offer an abstraction slightly above bare metal to do the stuff you said to do, charging higher than bare metal but lower than the other stuff. how much daylight is there between those prices?
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