Zero
Infrastructure
cloud file system
SHOW HN2018
252points
96comments
#122of 2,155 in 2018
Top 6%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
6 positive, 18 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 8 critical, out of 32 comments about the project. Thread score -0.10.
Idea: 2 for, 5 againstPricing: 3 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
Objections
Very slow and code is not optimized; marked not for production use
From 2 comments
Author here. Very glad to see that nobody has noticed how slow it is and nobody has made a comment about how messy code is in some places :D Working on both issues. But first I…
konschubert on HNPlease don't use it in prod, this is work in progress.
konschubert on HN
Cloud copy is eventually consistent and may be out of sync
From 1 comment
Interesting idea. But is the cloud version a complete image (perhaps out of sync)? If so then it’s a performance disaster, if not it’s very fragile. It seems to me what we really…
Tloewald on HN
Requests
Configurable local cache size
From 2 comments
It used to be unlimited but most of the users ultimately desired to offload data and access it on demand. It should be configurable but currently isn’t.
hemancuso on HNWhy is the local cache limited to 10 GB? I am building Zero to store my personal pictures and videos and I feel like 10GB local cache means that only the last month of pictures…
konschubert on HN
S3 backend support
From 2 comments
are there any plans to support S3?
mirceal on HNHi, the Back-Ends are in principle pluggable so I'm very happy to incorporate a PR for an s3 Back end. I may also do it myself eventually. I just find s3 very expensive for long…
konschubert on HN
Questions
Does it support encryption of files on cloud storage?
From 1 comment
Not seeing, but does it support encrypting files/folders on cloud storage?
hilyen on HN
How to set up the file system
From 1 comment
I can't see how this is used. Can we get a "here's how to set up the file system" guide somewhere? I see the bit about the config file. Then what? I'd primarily like to use this…
starkruzr on HN
Alternatives named
ExpanDrive
From 1 comment
Very cool project! Close to my heart. I write ExpanDrive http://www.expandrive.com Which operates with the same idea, up to a 10Gb local cache and will stream out larger files.…
hemancuso on HN
rclone
From 2 comments
Been using rclone mount for something similar, curious how this compares
corybrown on HNRclone has a cache backend in the latest version which works exactly like OP.
dpacmittal on HN
s3ql
From 1 comment
Why would one prefer this over s3ql (https://bitbucket.org/nikratio/s3ql/)?
tader on HN
Syncthing
From 1 comment
I've been using SyncThing [1] recently, which does a similar thing but between your own devices (anything from Android to desktop to servers in the cloud). I've been using it on…
mkl on HN