Goofys

Learn how to use Goofys with Filebase.

What is Goofys?

Goofys is a Linux utility program that enables users to mount S3-compatible buckets to their Linux file system via FUSE.

Read below to learn how to use Goofys with Filebase.

Prerequisites:

• Download and install the latest version of Go.

• Download, install and configure AWS CLI. Goofys uses the AWS credentials file as the AWS CLI.

• Sign up for a free Filebase account.

• Have your Filebase Access and Secret Keys. Learn how to view your access keys here.

• Create a Filebase Bucket. Learn how to create a bucket here.

This guide was written using Ubuntu 20.04. Commands may vary depending on your operating system.

1. Install Goofys with the following commands:

• Make directory for Goofys repo to be pulled to:

mkdir -p /home/filebase/go/src/github.com/kahing

• Clone Goofys repo

cd /home/filebase/go/src/github.com/kahing/

git clone <https://github.com/kahing/goofys.git>

• Set environment variables:

export GOPATH=/home/filebase/go

export GOOFYS_HOME=/home/filebase/go/src/github.com/kahing/goofys/

• Populate submodule repos:

cd /home/filebase/go/src/github.com/kahing/goofys

git submodule init

git submodule update

• Install Goofys

go install

• Export Path and check Goofys version to confirm successful installation:

PATH=$PATH:/home/filebase/go/bin; export PATH

goofys --version

2. Create a directory to mount your Filebase bucket to.

mkdir /home/filebase/mnt/goofys

3. Mount your Filebase bucket with the following command:

$GOPATH/bin/goofys --endpoint <https://s3.filebase.com.com> filebase-sample-bucket /home/filebase/mnt/goofys

Once mounted, you can access the bucket and its contents like any other directory on the filesystem.