Amazon S3 as a local filesystem

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I decided to test writes to an U.S s3 bucket mounted from an E.U ec2 instance ( ubuntu-9.04 )

dax@iota-tst # time dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/fuses3fs bs=1M count=1024

1024+0 records in

1024+0 records out

1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 172.452 s, 6.2 MB/s

real    2m53.318s

user    0m0.000s

sys     0m2.564s

One usage for this would be a cheap cloud storage like dropbox but dumber, no version control. Which could be solved by using bzr / svn not sure of the performance or operating isues you might encounter in that setup.

Technically you could have mysql setup to use this file system but you will suffer greatly performace wise.

Ubuntu Notes:
install pkg-config libxml2-dev libssl-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev lib
fuse-dev