On: Show HN: Minimalist Object Storage Project

[y4m4b4]

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.