On: Show HN: Minimalist Object Storage Project

[fiatjaf]

I don't understand what is this about.

[kelvin0 → fiatjaf]

Why the downvotes? I am genuinely curious also, but there is next to nothing in terms of details (uses cases and such) on their site!

[y4m4b4 → kelvin0]

We don't have any yet, we are just few months old project. We will will have a distributed server by end of this year.

We have stand alone server now which includes currently three modes of operation

-- memory

-- filesystem

-- donut(experimental)

A small video to help you download and start a memory mode - https://asciinema.org/a/21575

Client tools and libraries are ready to be used by community to give us feedback on.

- https://github.com/minio/mc - Minio client collection of tools like `ls`, `cp`, `sync`, `cat`

- https://github.com/minio/minio-go - Golang

- https://github.com/minio/minio-js - Nodejs

- https://github.com/minio/minio-java - Java

[jahewson → y4m4b4]

What's "donut" storage?

[y4m4b4 → jahewson]

Donut - is a distributed erasure coded backend format, designed specifically for immutable data.

We call it "do not delete" in short donut.

https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/master/pkg/storage/donut

It is currently experimental, but a distributed version is a work in progress.

[unlocksmith → fiatjaf]

It is an open source alternative to Amazon S3. Just few months old project. Client utility 'mc' and language libraries are already usable.