herdfs
Open, pluggable shared filesystem: FUSE clients, one authority, any S3 bucket
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GITHUB · launched Oct 14, 2026 · 75 upvotes (top 19%)
- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- filesystem
- fuse
- nfs
- rust
- s3
Similar launches
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No A distributed, FUSE-based shared filesystem with chunked S3 streaming, offline journaling, cryptographic authority, and conflict resolution is high-level systems infrastructure that requires deep systems architecture knowledge.
What it would actually take: Built using Rust with libfuse/FUSE kernel bindings to map POSIX filesystem calls into chunk-level object storage operations on S3. The difficult pieces include implementing a central authority service with cryptographic authentication, bounded local disk caching, speculative prefetching, an offline write-ahead log/journal that syncs upon reconnection, and transactional metadata consensus without inducing deadlocks or high latency.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 527 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #95 of 528 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 341 days after the earliest competitor.
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