Install S3fs on Amazon Linux/Centos

S3f3 is FUSE-based file system backed by Amazon S3 which you can mount your S3 bucket to Linux machine.

Use cases:-
- Turn your backup folder to unlimited storage pool
- Serve as centralized media storage location for multiple servers.

Limitation:-

• Objects size can only up to of 5GB.
• You can't update part of an object. If you want to update 1 byte in a 1GB object you'll have to reupload the entire file.

Here's the installation steps:-
sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools";
sudo yum install curl-devel libxml2-devel openssl-devel mailcap

cd ~;
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fuse/fuse-2.X/2.9.3/fuse-2.9.3.tar.gz;
tar -xzvf fuse-2.9.3.tar.gz;
cd fuse-2.9.3;

./configure --prefix=/usr;
make;
sudo make install;
sudo ldconfig;
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig;
#Verify version
#pkg-config --modversion fuse

cd~;
wget http://s3fs.googlecode.com/files/s3fs-1.73.tar.gz;
tar -xzvf s3fs-1.73.tar.gz;
cd s3fs-1.73;
./configure --prefix=/usr;
make;
sudo make install;


vi /etc/passwd-s3fs
chmod 600 /etc/passwd-s3fs

mount s3fs [bucketname] ~/s3bucket
umount: fusermount -u ~/s3bucket

mount on boot

s3fs#s3bucket /mnt/s3bucket fuse allow_other,use_cache=/tmp 0 0

Sources: http://kisdigital.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/installing-s3fs-on-rhelcentos/
http://www.idevelopment.info/data/AWS/AWS_Tips/AWS_Management/AWS_20.shtml
http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/exploring-s3-based-filesystems-s3fs-and-s3backer

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