iskedk / cloudfs

Cloud virtual filesystem and block device

cloudfs

Cloudfs creates a virtual filesystem or block device on top of popular cloud storage services. This filesystem can only be accessed with cloudfs. It also supports transparent encryption and zlib compression. It currently supports Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage.

Author

Benjamin Kittridge

[e-mail]

http://byteworm.com

Requirements

1. Linux

2. Fuse

3. Zlib

4. Curl

5. OpenSSL

Compiling and installing

1. Run ./config.sh

2. Run make

3. Run make install or copy bin/cloudfs to /usr/bin/

4. Copy bin/cloudfs.conf to ~/.cloudfs.conf

5. Edit ~/.cloudfs.conf

Command-line options for virtual filesystem

Listing volumes:
    cloudfs --list

Create a new volume:
    cloudfs --volume [volume] --create

Mounting the volume:
    cloudfs --volume [volume] --mount [directory]

Unmounting the volume:
    cloudfs --volume [volume] --unmount [directory]

Deleting the volume:
    cloudfs --volume [volume] --delete

Command-line options for block device

Listing volumes:
    cloudfs --list

Create a new volume:
    cloudfs --volume [volume] --format block --size [size i.e. 30G] --create

Mounting the volume:
    cloudfs --volume [volume] --mount /dev/nbd0
    
Creating a ext3 filesystem:
    mkfs.ext3 /dev/nbd0

Unmounting the volume:
    cloudfs --volume [volume] --unmount /dev/nbd0

Deleting the volume:
    cloudfs --volume [volume] --delete

Tips and tricks

If you're going to use rsync with cloudfs, you'll see an improvement in performance if you specify the " --inplace " flag with rsync. This flag is not required, but highly recommended.

For automated scripts, you can add the " --force " flag to prevent prompting.

You can't mount the same bucket twice at the same time for writing, but you can use the " --readonly " flag to mount a bucket in read-only mode.