ZeroFS
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
5recommend
0warn against
Jan 14, 2026first mention
Oct 2, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Works pretty awesomely with git workloads, even Linux sized trees.”
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“ZeroFS might help here to put the actual storage on an S3 compatible object store”
“Should do a great job at this.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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From the makers not counted in the ranking
“ZeroFS ended up not needing recovery at all through atomic, strictly ordered commits”
“The benchmark suite is trivial and opensource”
“What I often do on ZeroFS”
“I am working on ZeroFS [0], a POSIX filesystem that works on top of S3.”
“to support my 9p server [0]”
“Shameless plug: https://github.com/Barre/ZeroFS”
Threads where it came up
- Show HN: ZeroFS – A log-structured filesystem for S3 4 mentions
- S3 Files and the changing face of S3 4 mentions
- JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3 3 mentions
- You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles 2 mentions
- Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects 2 mentions
- I taught a bucket to speak Git 2 mentions
Data: zerofs.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 32
“https://www.zerofs.net/”
“Or is there an innovation in zerofs that somehow solves this for git?”
“Works pretty awesomely with git workloads, even Linux sized trees.”
“the commercial license link https://www.zerofs.net/licensing is a 404 page”
“ZeroFS might help here to put the actual storage on an S3 compatible object store”
“Do you think ZeroFS currently makes a good candidate?”
“I don't see an issue with the benchmark but I might not be looking in the right place.”
“The HA certainly makes this more of an alternative to JuiceFS now.”
“NFSv3 stayed in ZeroFS mostly for client compatibility.”
“There's now a "replicated mode" if you want automatic failover + HA”
“It's there! https://www.zerofs.net/docs/kubernetes-csi”
“it works great on linux-sized repos”
“Should do a great job at this.”
“Or ZeroFS which doesn’t require a 3rd party database, just a s3 bucket!”
“SQLite works great with ZeroFS”
“How does it compare to ZeroFS?”
“See also: https://github.com/Barre/ZeroFS”
“is a single binary”
“running sqlite off of an s3-backed ZeroFS”
“it works great with Postgres”
“ZeroFS [0] is very thankful for what it brought to Linux with the v9fs”
“i'm very glad zerofs was mentioned as an alternative for small files/operations”
“ZeroFS [0] outperforms JuiceFS”
“Could someone possibly compare this to”
“For ZeroFS [0], I went an alternate route with NFS/9P.”
“storage backend and it’s been great!”
“thus is not compatible with ZeroFS”
“On ZeroFS [0] I am doing around 80 000 minutes a month.”
“If you use 9P or NBD it handles fsync as expected.”
“Most of merklemap is stored on ZeroFS [0]”
“It works great out the box with SQLite”
I've been using Minio in ZeroFS' [0] CI (a POSIX compliant filesystem that works on top of s3). I guess I'll switch to MicroCeph [1]. [0] https://github.com/Barre/ZeroFS [1] https://canonical-microceph.readthedocs-hosted.com/stable/