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Re: MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

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Post by coredog64 » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 4:46 PM UTC

ecshafer wrote: post #15

radlad wrote: post #6

Any good alternatives?

A lot of them actually. Ceph personally I've used. But there's a ton, some open source, some paid. Backblaze has a product Buckets or something. Dell powerscale. Cloudian has one. Nutanix has one.

I've been looking at microceph, but the requirement to run 3 OSDs on loopback files plus this comment from the docs gives me pause:

`Be wary that an OSD, whether based on a physical device or a file, is resource intensive.`

Can anyone quantify "resource intensive" here? Is it "takes an entire Raspberry Pi to run the minimum set" or is it "takes 4 cores per OSD"?

Edit: This is the specific doc page https://canonical-microceph.readthedocs-hosted.com/stable/ho...

Re: MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

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Post by itopaloglu83 » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 4:46 PM UTC

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #20

Havoc wrote: post #9

I thought they were pivoting towards close it and trying to monetize this? That got backlash so now it’s just getting dropped entirely? People get to do whatever they want but bit jarring to go from this is worth something people will pay for to maintenance mode in quick succession

They cite a proprietary alternative they offer for enterprises. So yes they pivoted to a monetized offering and are just dropping the open source one.

So they’re pulling an OpenAI.

Start open source to use free advertising and community programmer, and then dumps it all for commercial licensing.

I think n8n is next because they finished the release candidate for version 2.0, but there are no changelogs.

Re: MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

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Post by cantagi » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 4:47 PM UTC

They have been removing features from the open source version for a while.

The closest alternative seems to be RustFS. Has anyone tried it? I was waiting until they support site replication before switching.

Re: MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

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Post by dardeaup » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 4:47 PM UTC

mr-karan wrote: post #26

Dachande663 wrote: post #19

Does anyone have any recommendations for a simple S3-wrapper to a standard dir? I've got a few apps/services that can send data to S3 (or S3 compatible services) that I want to point to a local server I have, but they don't support SFTP or any of the more "primitive" solutions. I did use a python local-s3 thing, but it was... not good.

You could perhaps checkout https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

I've done some preliminary testing with garage and I was pleasantly surprised. It worked as expected and didn't run into any gotchas.

Re: MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

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Post by dardeaup » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 4:49 PM UTC

ecshafer wrote: post #15

radlad wrote: post #6

Any good alternatives?

A lot of them actually. Ceph personally I've used. But there's a ton, some open source, some paid. Backblaze has a product Buckets or something. Dell powerscale. Cloudian has one. Nutanix has one.

Ceph is awesome for software defined storage where you have multiple storage nodes and multiple storage devices on each. It's way too heavy and resource intensive for a single machine with loopback devices.

Re: MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

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Post by nkmnz » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 4:50 PM UTC

theideaofcoffee wrote: post #10

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Downvoted because nobody knows how far a distance 39.5 feet is.

Re: MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

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Post by Kerrick » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 4:50 PM UTC

0x073 wrote: post #23

giancarlostoro wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm both shocked and not surprised. Lots of questions: Are they doing that bad from the outcry? Or are they just keeping a private version and going completely commercial only? If so, how do they bypass the AGPL in doing so, I assume they had contributions under the AGPL.

"For enterprise support and actively maintained versions, please see MinIO AIStor." Commercial only, they will replace the agpl contributions from external people. (Or at least they will say that)

I don't understand. They've seen the contributions. How can they possibly do a clean-room implementation to avoid copyright infringement? (Let alone how tangled up in the history of the codebase they must be...)

Re: MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

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Post by candiddevmike » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 4:50 PM UTC

It sucks that S3 somehow became the defacto object storage interface, the API is terrible IMO. Too many headers, too many unknowns with support. WebDAV isn't any better, but I feel like we missed an opportunity here for a standardized interface.

Re: MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

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Post by dardeaup » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 4:52 PM UTC

coredog64 wrote: post #31

ecshafer wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of them actually. Ceph personally I've used. But there's a ton, some open source, some paid. Backblaze has a product Buckets or something. Dell powerscale. Cloudian has one. Nutanix has one.

I've been looking at microceph, but the requirement to run 3 OSDs on loopback files plus this comment from the docs gives me pause: `Be wary that an OSD, whether based on a physical device or a file, is resource intensive.` Can anyone quantify "resource intensive" here? Is it "takes an entire Raspberry Pi to run the minimum set" or is it "takes 4 cores per OSD"? Edit: This is the specific doc page https://canonical-m…

Ceph has multiple daemons that would need to be running: monitor, manager, OSD (1 per storage device), and RADOS Gateway (RGW). If you only had a single storage device it would still be 4 daemons.

Re: MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

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Post by dbacar » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 4:54 PM UTC

Disgusting. Build a product, make it open-source to gain traction, and when you are done completely abandon it. Shame on me that I have put this ^%^$hit on a project and advocated it.