S3 Gotchas (contd.)

• Quite hacky to use directly as a network filesystem

• • (OpenFount S3InfiDisk -- free-as-in-beer product)
  • doesn't have real POSIX semantics, anyway

• no atomic filesystem semantics

• • however, there is an interesting “rename” hack using the md5sum metadata

• no rsync support

• • (although s3sync is close)