Ross ROSS = Recommend OSS · open-source software intelligence for agents

kahing/goofys

a high-performance, POSIX-ish Amazon S3 file system written in Go observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/kahing/goofys · Go · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

23/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4006
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 776
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

5564 stars · 534 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Goofys is a FUSE-based tool that mounts Amazon S3 buckets (and Azure/GCS/Swift storage) as a file system on Linux and macOS. It prioritizes performance over strict POSIX compliance, trading away features like random writes and per-file permissions for speed.

Use cases

  • mount an s3 bucket as a local filesystem
  • access cloud storage files from linux command line
  • serve s3 objects to applications expecting a filesystem
  • mount azure blob storage on mac
  • back up local files directly to s3 via mount point
  • analyze large datasets stored in s3 with local tools

When to choose

  • you need fast, read-heavy access to object storage as a filesystem
  • your workload is sequential reads/writes and doesn't need strict POSIX semantics
  • you want a lightweight, dependency-free mount tool with no disk cache

When to avoid

  • you need random writes, file locking, or full POSIX compliance
  • you require per-file permissions and metadata fidelity
  • you need an actively developed project with recent fixes

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

file-system object-storage cli cloud cloud-computing files developer-tools go cli fuse s3 object-storage-mount posix azure-blob google-cloud-storage storage linux macos

1 source

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
kahing/goofysmain23

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="kahing/goofys")

Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00 · Report a problem