The concept of "auto"-tiered, transparent storage is _really_ compelling! ...and the use of AGPL is really clever as an "enterprise poison pill".

It still sucks that S3 is ~$20/mo/TB basically "in perpetuity", while random SSD drives are ~$80/TB and I'd feel comfortable effectively amortizing them out at ~$20/yr for local storage instead of $20/mo for S3. :-/

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Eikon 2 days ago | parent [-]

> It still sucks that S3 is ~$20/mo/TB basically "in perpetuity", while random SSD drives are ~$80/TB and I'd feel comfortable effectively amortizing them out at ~$20/yr for local storage instead of $20/mo for S3. :-/

ZeroFS will work with any S3 implementation that supports conditional writes. Even something a bit premium-priced like CloudFlare R2 goes for around $15/TB and has no egress costs. If you want to go for as cheap as possible, I'd throw minio or similar on a few cheap Hetzner storage servers https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-sx/

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aspenmayer 2 days ago | parent [-]

How does this compare to rclone, as I also asked in a top level comment? rclone can mount S3 as a union mount so it seems to have the same feature set? Have you benchmarked ZeroFS against rclone?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45178548

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Eikon 2 days ago | parent [-]

Unless I am missing something, rclone will probably compare similarly to https://www.zerofs.net/zerofs-vs-mountpoint-s3

	▲	aspenmayer 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		One big difference I see is that rclone is MIT licensed, whereas ZeroFS is licensed under AGPL with commercial license also available? https://www.zerofs.net/licensing