goofys
The premium Open Source alternative to s3fs-fuse
🎯 Best for:High-throughput data processing pipelines requiring S3 access.
What is goofys?
A high-performance alternative to s3fs for mounting Amazon S3 buckets as local filesystems. It achieves superior speed by prioritizing metadata operations and utilizing a non-POSIX-compliant write model optimized for cloud latency.
Tech Stack
GoDatabase & Storage
Why goofys?
- • Superior metadata performance
- • Low memory footprint
- • Simple CLI configuration
Limitations
- • Not fully POSIX compliant
- • No random writes
- • Limited error handling for network drops
3/3/2026
Last Update
531
Forks
293
Issues
Apache-2.0
License
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Competitor Cost
-$1,440
/ year (est. based on s3fs-fuse)
Self-Hosted
$0
/ year
Team Size10 Users
150+
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