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Life & fun · October 19, 2015

Goofys – a faster s3fs written in Go

a high-performance, POSIX-ish Amazon S3 file system written in Go - kahing/goofys

Goofys – a faster s3fs written in Go launched on October 19, 2015 with 40 votes, #1,780 of 4,175 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

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Goofys is a file system written in Go that allows users to mount Amazon S3 storage and access it like a local directory. It provides POSIX-compatible file operations with a focus on high performance compared to traditional S3 file systems. The tool is designed for developers and system administrators who need to integrate S3 storage into their workflows on Unix-like operating systems.

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