{"id":22292,"date":"2024-09-24T12:12:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T10:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/contabo.com\/blog\/kb\/103000305602-what-is-the-goofys-tool\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T18:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T16:04:47","slug":"103000305602-what-is-the-goofys-tool","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/contabo.com\/blog\/kb\/103000305602-what-is-the-goofys-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Goofys Tool?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>What is the Goofys tool?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/kahing\/goofys\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Goofys<\/u><\/a> is another S3 file system tool for Linux and macOS. It provides the same functionality as <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.contabo.com\/docs\/products\/Object-Storage\/Tools\/s3fs-fuse\" rel=\"nofollow\"><u>s3fs-fuse<\/u><\/a> but with better performance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Please follow the installation instructions described <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/kahing\/goofys#installation\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> if you are interested in the tool. You will need the following information to install the tool:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>access_key<\/li>\n<li>secret_key<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Contabo&#8217;s S3 URL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On Linux systems, make sure package fuse-utils is installed and run the following command:<\/p>\n<pre dir=\"ltr\">wget&nbsp;https:\/\/github.com\/kahing\/goofys\/releases\/latest\/download\/goofys\nsudo&nbsp;install&nbsp;goofys \/usr\/local\/bin\/<code class=\"codeBlockLines_e6Vv\">\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Please note that that a mounted Object Storage bucket doesn&#8217;t always behave like a normal POSIX file system. Depending on how your application is accessing files, you may encounter issues like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">No\/wrong file system usage statistics.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Sub-par performance.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Unexpected unmounts.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Duplicate writes leading to hidden objects that occupy space but are invisible to S3 API requests.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If possible, using other tools like <u><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.contabo.com\/docs\/products\/Object-Storage\/Tools\/rclone\" rel=\"nofollow\">rclone<\/a>&nbsp;<\/u>to access Object Storage is recommended.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>How do I configure Goofys with Contabo&#8217;s Object Storage?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Either follow the steps from <u><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.contabo.com\/docs\/products\/Object-Storage\/Tools\/aws-cli\" rel=\"nofollow\"><u>aws-cli<\/u><\/a><\/u> to configure an endpoint in ~\/.aws\/credentials or create the file manually:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"codeBlockLines_e6Vv\">[default]\naws_access_key_id=82046e8110804a43bf29c1ae426a724d\naws_secret_access_key=82e69bd7a52076c527154297a76c2233\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ast-load-more active\"><a href=\"https:\/\/help.contabo.com\/en\/support\/solutions\/articles\/103000305602-what-is-the-goofys-tool-\" rel=\"nofollow\">Details&#8230;<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the Goofys tool? Goofys is another S3 file system tool for Linux and macOS. It provides the same functionality as s3fs-fuse but with better performance.&nbsp; Please follow the installation instructions described here if you are interested in the tool. You will need the following information to install the tool: access_key secret_key Contabo&#8217;s S3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22292","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","category-kb"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Contabo Web","author_link":"https:\/\/contabo.com\/blog\/author\/julius-nalivaiko\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"What is the Goofys tool? 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