Mount tardigrade bucket as a share

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Hi,

I installed uplink client to access my tardigrade buckets on my debian server and it works very well.

Now, in order to have an easier access to it, I would like to mount my buckets as a share on my debian server (like an SMB or NFS share).
Is that possible?

I already managed to add a bucket through my Nextcloud server but it would be simpler if I could just install it on a debian server.

Thanks a lot!

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I have brought the Nextcloud issue to the attention of our dev team working on connectors. We will let you know when we have any feedback.

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Thank you!

Actually, my question was more focused on “how to mount Tardigrade bucket as a share” than being able to connect to Tardigrade through Nextcloud (even if it would be very nice if this issue was solved :)).

My need would be to manage files stored on Storj network (through tardigrade) like any other file system.

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@jeremyfritzen That’s great question.
Technically it is possible.
rclone is one-way but work on this is still in progress and will be available soon, a raw FUSE driver would be another that you can do.

Thanks for heads up on this use case, we think it can be a nice theme for one of our next blog posts where we can tell more about it.

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Thanks for your reply!

rclone is not really for the same use case. It would be good for backup but not for managing files stored on tardigrade.
I would like to be able to manage files stored on tardigrade transparently, as I would do with a SMB or NFS mounted directory.

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Could you elaborate how you would do that?

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you could use s3fs-fuse with the S3 gateway.

A native fuse driver would be interesting though.

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I’m going to give it a try!

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Well, after a quick try, it seems to work well!

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In case someone else wants to try this setup, it is a bit tricky because s3fs expects to use AWS, and the Minio server that the s3-gateway is based on does not work like that. On MacOS I got it working with this commandline:

s3fs /mountpoint -o bucket=test1 -o profile=tardigrade -o url=http://localhost:7777 -o use_path_request_style -o sigv2 -o auto_xattr

The profile= is a regular awscli profile (for the username/password) the auto_xattr is required to allow Finder on MacOS to show the contents.

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