Setup Amazon EFS as Internal Storage?

Fenrihr · June 22, 2019, 2:49pm

Hi, I recently installed nextcloud on my server and started testing it out. I’m interesting in Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) as internal storage but couldn’t find related information. I have 2 main question:

Is possible setup Amazon EFS as internal storage? How?
It’s worth it use Amazon EFS vs Amazon S3?

Tomasu · June 24, 2019, 4:41am

I have no experience with efs so take this with a grain of salt… I have setup NFS mounts as internal storage, so as long as efs can be directly mounted then there shouldn’t be any problem. I imagine if you couldn’t mount it you would have to find or write a next cloud plugin to provide integration.

Reiner_Nippes · June 24, 2019, 7:58am

follow the aws instructions. you’ll end up with something like: sudo mount -t nfs4 -o nfsvers=4.1,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,hard,timeo=600,retrans=2,noresvport fs-xxx.efs.<region>.amazonaws.com:/ <mount-point>

if price doesn’t matters. -> efs
efs will store your files like in a local fs.
files on s3 are different. you’ll find out when you have to restore a single file.
or you “mount” the s3 bucket as fuse fs. https://github.com/s3ql/s3ql/ or https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse