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I can vouch for Garage too. It was a lot simpler imo than minio and works great over a handful of servers in different DCs.
by johntash · Sep 15, 2026
I don't think I know anyone running minio anymore. It's sad how they destroyed themselves, but that's the way it goes.
by msarrel · Sep 15, 2026
I'm pretty happy with Seaweed, running that on prem, rock solid so far. Moved off MinIO when the licensing shenanigans started
by karolist · Sep 15, 2026
Its not locking, it needs consistent conditional PUT. Minio did have that, Rustfs does, Garage is eventually consistent so explicitly does not support it correctly.
by justincormack · Sep 15, 2026
Right. It's nice to hear about other products, but OP made it sound like Minio disappeared and was not an option. Neither are true. Yes the company moved on but the old source i…
by imglorp · Sep 15, 2026
Define scale. When I tried minio 5 years ago it choked pretty quick on storing billions of objects
by tempest_ · Sep 15, 2026
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