{"slug": "rustfs", "name": "RustFS", "category": "files", "category_name": "Files, sync and backup", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 8, "warners": 1, "score": 3.317, "rising": 0.02, "first": "2025-12-03", "latest": "2026-09-15", "why": "We use RustFS in a production system with no issues.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 1, "compare": 2, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "We use RustFS in a production system with no issues.", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": "github.com/rustfs/rustfs", "official_url": "https://rustfs.com", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["RustFS", "rustfs"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 795382240, "item_id": 49711390, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711390", "by": "markab21", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We use RustFS in a production system with no issues.", "excerpt": "Yup, same. We use RustFS in a production system with no issues. We switched over after MinIO license changes and after evaluating a few different stacks. We have heavy concurrent usage, and we haven't had a single issue yet.", "context": "", "use_case": "S3 object storage in production", "switched_from": "MinIO", "story": "Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3"}, {"id": 782104736, "item_id": 48881546, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48881546", "by": "snapplebobapple", "date": "2026-07-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I think it's those small writes that was making garagefs perform so badly and rustfs perform a lot better.", "excerpt": "I think it's those small writes that was making garagefs perform so badly and rustfs perform a lot better. My setup sounds like a different scale than yours though. It's my home lab running on questionable hardware. As truenas apps for rustfs/garagefs. I use cephfs on my proxmox cluster and it's honestly not that great if you have a lot of small files either (which I do because of things like screenshots in jellyfin/", "context": "home lab on questionable hardware", "use_case": "S3 object storage in home lab", "switched_from": "Garage", "story": "ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files"}, {"id": 755217488, "item_id": 47201093, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47201093", "by": "holysoles", "date": "2026-02-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I switched to rustfs this week though and am not looking back. I'd recommend it to others as well for small scale usage.", "excerpt": "I'll plug that Chainguard has been maintaining a fork for awhile and seems to have a history with supporting forks like this: https://github.com/chainguard-forks/minio For a web GUI, I had been using this project: https://github.com/huncrys/minio-console I switched to rustfs this week though and am not looking back. I'd recommend it to others as well for small scale usage. Its maturing rapidly and seems promising.", "context": "", "use_case": "S3-compatible object storage", "switched_from": "MinIO", "story": "MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO"}, {"id": 752013760, "item_id": 47000860, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000860", "by": "lucideer", "date": "2026-02-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Sofar I've switched to Rustfs which seems like a very nice project", "excerpt": "This is timely news for me - I was just standing up some Loki infrastructure yesterday & following Grafana's own guides on object storage (they recommend minio for non-cloud setups). I wasn't previously experienced with minio & would have completely missed the maintenance status if it wasn't for Checkov nagging me about using latest tags for images & having to go searching for release versions. Sofar I've switched to", "context": "", "use_case": "object storage for Loki", "switched_from": "MinIO", "story": "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 767637714, "item_id": 47977357, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977357", "by": "uroni", "date": "2026-05-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "to me it is a bit suspect, e.g. if it uses fsync for durability.", "excerpt": "I build https://github.com/uroni/hs5 as replacement for single node use with a focus on high performance. I list other alternatives in the README there. Some short version: Ceph: Robust, widely used for multi-node deployments. Would recommend for serious use. RustFS: As an in-place replacement using the same storage format. Though, to me it is a bit suspect, e.g. if it uses fsync for durability. seaweedfs: Multi-node", "context": "", "use_case": "MinIO in-place replacement", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO?"}]}], "who": [{"by": "snapplebobapple", "context": "home lab on questionable hardware", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48881546", "date": "2026-07-12"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["s3-compatible object storage", "s3 object storage in production", "s3 object storage in home lab", "s3-compatible blob storage", "s3 blob storage", "minio in-place replacement"], "compared": [{"slug": "minio", "name": "MinIO", "co": 9, "switched_from": 3, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "garage", "name": "Garage", "co": 6, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "seaweedfs", "name": "SeaweedFS", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "ceph", "name": "Ceph", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977081", "title": "Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO?", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49709381", "title": "Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48874297", "title": "ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200342", "title": "MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000041", "title": "MinIO repository is no longer maintained", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46136023", "title": "MinIO is now in maintenance-mode", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"warn": 1, "compare": 2}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 795382240, "item_id": 49711390, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711390", "by": "markab21", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We use RustFS in a production system with no issues.", "excerpt": "Yup, same. We use RustFS in a production system with no issues. We switched over after MinIO license changes and after evaluating a few different stacks. We have heavy concurrent usage, and we haven't had a single issue yet.", "context": "", "use_case": "S3 object storage in production", "switched_from": "MinIO", "story": "Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3"}, {"id": 782104736, "item_id": 48881546, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48881546", "by": "snapplebobapple", "date": "2026-07-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I think it's those small writes that was making garagefs perform so badly and rustfs perform a lot better.", "excerpt": "I think it's those small writes that was making garagefs perform so badly and rustfs perform a lot better. My setup sounds like a different scale than yours though. It's my home lab running on questionable hardware. As truenas apps for rustfs/garagefs. I use cephfs on my proxmox cluster and it's honestly not that great if you have a lot of small files either (which I do because of things like screenshots in jellyfin/", "context": "home lab on questionable hardware", "use_case": "S3 object storage in home lab", "switched_from": "Garage", "story": "ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files"}, {"id": 767801281, "item_id": 47987580, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987580", "by": "embedding-shape", "date": "2026-05-02", "stance": "compare", "quote": "if I just wanted S3-compatible API, I'd probably go with RustFS although it's not so mature yet", "excerpt": "Thanks a bunch! Currently I'm weighing SeaweedFS vs RustFS, and if I just wanted S3-compatible API, I'd probably go with RustFS although it's not so mature yet, but with WebDAV and some other stuff, and favoring stability and reliability, looks like I'm leaning more towards SeaweedFS.", "context": "", "use_case": "S3-compatible blob storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO?"}, {"id": 767637922, "item_id": 47977370, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977370", "by": "realityfactchex", "date": "2026-05-01", "stance": "compare", "quote": "I'm thinking maybe SeaweedFS [0, 2] or Versity Gatweway [1, 3] or RustFS [4].", "excerpt": "I'm thinking maybe SeaweedFS [0, 2] or Versity Gatweway [1, 3] or RustFS [4]. Seems there are other options, too, e.g. Garage [5]. I only used MinIO briefly in the past, but it was good/worked, and I do plan to set up S3 blob storage again soon. [0] https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs [1] https://github.com/versity/versitygw [2] https://blog.elest.io/rustfs-vs-seaweedfs-vs-garage-which-minio-alternative-should-you", "context": "", "use_case": "S3 blob storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO?"}, {"id": 767637714, "item_id": 47977357, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977357", "by": "uroni", "date": "2026-05-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "to me it is a bit suspect, e.g. if it uses fsync for durability.", "excerpt": "I build https://github.com/uroni/hs5 as replacement for single node use with a focus on high performance. I list other alternatives in the README there. Some short version: Ceph: Robust, widely used for multi-node deployments. Would recommend for serious use. RustFS: As an in-place replacement using the same storage format. Though, to me it is a bit suspect, e.g. if it uses fsync for durability. seaweedfs: Multi-node", "context": "", "use_case": "MinIO in-place replacement", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO?"}, {"id": 755217488, "item_id": 47201093, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47201093", "by": "holysoles", "date": "2026-02-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I switched to rustfs this week though and am not looking back. I'd recommend it to others as well for small scale usage.", "excerpt": "I'll plug that Chainguard has been maintaining a fork for awhile and seems to have a history with supporting forks like this: https://github.com/chainguard-forks/minio For a web GUI, I had been using this project: https://github.com/huncrys/minio-console I switched to rustfs this week though and am not looking back. I'd recommend it to others as well for small scale usage. Its maturing rapidly and seems promising.", "context": "", "use_case": "S3-compatible object storage", "switched_from": "MinIO", "story": "MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO"}, {"id": 752013760, "item_id": 47000860, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000860", "by": "lucideer", "date": "2026-02-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Sofar I've switched to Rustfs which seems like a very nice project", "excerpt": "This is timely news for me - I was just standing up some Loki infrastructure yesterday & following Grafana's own guides on object storage (they recommend minio for non-cloud setups). I wasn't previously experienced with minio & would have completely missed the maintenance status if it wasn't for Checkov nagging me about using latest tags for images & having to go searching for release versions. Sofar I've switched to", "context": "", "use_case": "object storage for Loki", "switched_from": "MinIO", "story": "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"}, {"id": 738198145, "item_id": 46137384, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137384", "by": "bityard", "date": "2025-12-03", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I hadn't heard of RustFS and it looks interesting", "excerpt": "Garage is a popular alternative to Minio. https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr I hadn't heard of RustFS and it looks interesting, although I nearly clicked away based on the sheer volume of marketing wank on their main page. The GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/rustfs/rustfs", "context": "", "use_case": "S3-compatible object storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "MinIO is now in maintenance-mode"}]}