Minio
Infrastructure
object storage server
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
3 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.04.
Performance: 1 for, 0 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Very easy to get started with
From 1 comment
I tried minio and was really impressed with how easy it is to get started. But I couldn't figure out how to scale it or make it reliable. Having my entire system depend on a…
devplusops on HN
Least painful S3 server implementation to use
From 1 comment
Cool! The continuous async replication feature you mention would be ideal, especially if it's setup so that I can use consul/etcd/... to automatically elect a "master". If you…
devplusops on HN
Objections
Single node only; no clustering or distributed mode yet
From 2 comments
While I commend the developers of Minio for building what appears to be a functional S3-API-compatible system in Go Lang it seems to me to be missing the key thing that makes S3…
gregburd on HNI tried minio and was really impressed with how easy it is to get started. But I couldn't figure out how to scale it or make it reliable. Having my entire system depend on a…
devplusops on HN
Single server is a reliability risk
From 1 comment
I tried minio and was really impressed with how easy it is to get started. But I couldn't figure out how to scale it or make it reliable. Having my entire system depend on a…
devplusops on HN
No disk quota support
From 1 comment
Cool! The continuous async replication feature you mention would be ideal, especially if it's setup so that I can use consul/etcd/... to automatically elect a "master". If you…
devplusops on HN
Requests
Built-in disk quotas
From 1 comment
Good point @devplusops. Disk quota should be built into Minio. Will add it to the roadmap.
unlocksmith on HN
Continuous replication and master election
From 1 comment
Cool! The continuous async replication feature you mention would be ideal, especially if it's setup so that I can use consul/etcd/... to automatically elect a "master". If you…
devplusops on HN
Clarify roadmap toward distributed operation
From 1 comment
While I commend the developers of Minio for building what appears to be a functional S3-API-compatible system in Go Lang it seems to me to be missing the key thing that makes S3…
gregburd on HN
Questions
Is the project intended to scale across nodes?
From 2 comments
While I commend the developers of Minio for building what appears to be a functional S3-API-compatible system in Go Lang it seems to me to be missing the key thing that makes S3…
gregburd on HNI tried minio and was really impressed with how easy it is to get started. But I couldn't figure out how to scale it or make it reliable. Having my entire system depend on a…
devplusops on HN
Alternatives named
Skylable
From 1 comment
I tried minio and was really impressed with how easy it is to get started. But I couldn't figure out how to scale it or make it reliable. Having my entire system depend on a…
devplusops on HN
ZFS volumes for quotas
From 1 comment
Cool! The continuous async replication feature you mention would be ideal, especially if it's setup so that I can use consul/etcd/... to automatically elect a "master". If you…
devplusops on HN