RustFS
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
1warn against
Dec 3, 2025first mention
Sep 15, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“We use RustFS in a production system with no issues.”
switched from MinIOon “Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3”
“I think it's those small writes that was making garagefs perform so badly and rustfs perform a lot better.”
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“I switched to rustfs this week though and am not looking back. I'd recommend it to others as well for small scale usage.”
switched from MinIOon “MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO”
“Sofar I've switched to Rustfs which seems like a very nice project”
switched from MinIOon “MinIO repository is no longer maintained”
Caveats and dissent
“to me it is a bit suspect, e.g. if it uses fsync for durability.”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO? 3 mentions
- Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3 1 mention
- ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files 1 mention
- MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO 1 mention
- MinIO repository is no longer maintained 1 mention
- MinIO is now in maintenance-mode 1 mention
Also written as rustfs. Data: rustfs.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“We use RustFS in a production system with no issues.”
“I think it's those small writes that was making garagefs perform so badly and rustfs perform a lot better.”
“if I just wanted S3-compatible API, I'd probably go with RustFS although it's not so mature yet”
“I'm thinking maybe SeaweedFS [0, 2] or Versity Gatweway [1, 3] or RustFS [4].”
“to me it is a bit suspect, e.g. if it uses fsync for durability.”
“I switched to rustfs this week though and am not looking back. I'd recommend it to others as well for small scale usage.”
“Sofar I've switched to Rustfs which seems like a very nice project”
“I hadn't heard of RustFS and it looks interesting”