Description

COSFS allows you to mount COS buckets locally and work with the objects in Tencent Cloud COS in the same way as you do with a local file system. COSFS supports the following features:

• Most features of the POSIX file system, such as reading/writing files, operations on directories/links, permission management, and uid/gid management.
• Multipart upload of large files.
• Data verification with MD5.
• Upload local data to COS (COS Migration or COSCMD is recommended).

Limitations

Built on S3FS, COSFS is only suitable for simple management of mounted files, and does not support some features of a local file system. It cannot replace Cloud Block Storage (CBS) or Cloud File Storage (CFS) for the reason of performance. Please note:

• Randomly writing data or appending data to a file may rewrite the entire file. To avoid this, you can use a CVM in a same region as the bucket to accelerate the upload and download of the file.
• When a COS bucket is mounted to multiple clients, you need to coordinate the behaviors of these clients, for example, to prevent the clients from simultaneously writing data to the same file.
• Rename operation on a file/folder is not atomic.
• For metadata operations such as list directory, COSFS has a limited performance, because remote access to the COS server is required.
• COSFS does not support hard link, and is inapplicable to the scenarios involving high-concurrency read/write operations.
• Mounting and unmounting files cannot be performed on the same mounting point at the same time. You can use the cd command to switch to another directory and then mount and unmount the files at the mounting point.

Installation and Usage

Operating Systems

Ubuntu, CentOS, SUSE, and macOS.

Installation

1. Install the dependency software

The compilation and installation of COSFS depend on the software packages such as automake, git, libcurl-devel, libxml2-devel, fuse-devel, make, and openssl-devel. The following describes how to install dependency software on Ubuntu, CentOS, SUSE, and macOS:

• Install dependency software on the Ubuntu system:

sudo apt-get install automake autotools-dev g++ git libcurl4-gnutls-dev libfuse-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev make pkg-config fuse

• Install dependency software on the CentOS system:

sudo yum install automake gcc-c++ git libcurl-devel libxml2-devel fuse-devel make openssl-devel fuse

• Install dependency software on the SUSE system:

sudo zypper install gcc-c++ automake make libcurl-devel libxml2-devel openssl-devel pkg-config

• Install dependency software on the macOS system:

brew install automake git curl libxml2 make pkg-config openssl 
brew cask install osxfuse

2. Obtain the source code

You need to download the COSFS source code from GitHub to the specified directory, e.g. /usr/cosfs in the sample below (It is recommended that you select the directory according to your actual operating environment):

git clone https://github.com/tencentyun/cosfs /usr/cosfs

3. Compile and install COSFS

Open the installation directory, and execute the following command to compile and install COSFS:

cd /usr/cosfs
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
cosfs --version  #View the cosfs version number

During the "configure" operation, a message is displayed, which varies with different operating systems:

• On a system where the fuse version is earlier than 2.8.4, the following error message is displayed during the "configure" operation:

  checking for common_lib_checking... configure: error: Package requirements (fuse >= 2.8.4 libcurl >= 7.0 libxml-2.0 >= 2.6) were not met:
  Requested 'fuse >= 2.8.4' but version of fuse is 2.8.3 

  In this case, you need to manually install fuse 2.8.4 or above as shown below:

  yum -y remove fuse-devel
  wget https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/releases/download/fuse_2_9_4/fuse-2.9.4.tar.gz
  tar -zxvf fuse-2.9.4.tar.gz
  cd fuse-2.9.4
  ./configure
  make
  make install
  export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
  modprobe fuse   #Mount the fuse's kernel module
  echo "/usr/local/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf
  ldconfig   #Update the dynamic link library
  pkg-config --modversion fuse  #View the fuse version number. If "2.9.4" is displayed, fuse 2.9.4 is installed successfully. 

  Install fuse 2.8.4 or above on the SUSE system, as shown below:

  During installation, you need to comment out the content of line 222 in the example/fusexmp.c file by using /*content*/. Otherwise, an error message is displayed when "make" is executed.

    zypper remove fuse libfuse2
    wget https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/releases/download/fuse_2_9_4/fuse-2.9.4.tar.gz
    tar -zxvf fuse-2.9.4.tar.gz
    cd fuse-2.9.4
    ./configure
    make 
    make install
    export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
    modprobe fuse   #Mount the fuse's kernel module
    echo "/usr/local/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf
    ldconfig   #Update the dynamic link library
    pkg-config --modversion fuse   #View the fuse version number. If "2.9.4" is displayed, fuse 2.9.4 is installed successfully. 

• When the "configure" operation is performed on macOS, the following may be displayed:

  configure: error: Package requirements (fuse >= 2.7.3 libcurl >= 7.0 libxml-2.0 >2.6 libcrypto >= 0.9) were not met
  No package 'libcrypto' found

  In this case, you need to set the variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH, so that the pkg-config tool can find openssl. The command is as follows:

  brew info openssl 
  export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/pkgconfig #You may need to modify this command based on the message displayed for the previous command.

Usage of COSFS

1. Configure the key file

In the /etc/passwd-cosfs file, write the bucket name (such as <BucketName-APPID>), and <SecretId> and <SecretKey> for the bucket. The three items are separated with half-width colons (:). In addition, to prevent key leakage, you need to set the permission for the key file to 640. The command used to configure the /etc/passwd-cosfs key file is as follows:

echo <BucketName-APPID>:<SecretId>:<SecretKey> > /etc/passwd-cosfs
chmod 640 /etc/passwd-cosfs

Replace <BucketName-APPID>, <SecretId>, and <SecretKey> with the information of your bucket.
For the bucket naming conventions, see Bucket Naming Conventions. Go to Cloud API Key Management in the CAM Console to obtain <SecretId> and <SecretKey>. In addition, you may store the keys in the $HOME/.passwd-cosfs file, or specify a path for the key file using -opasswd_file=[path]. In this case, you need to set the permission for the key file to 600.

Sample:

echo examplebucket-1250000000:AKIDHTVVaVR6e3:PdkhT9e2rZCfy6 > /etc/passwd-cosfs
chmod 640 /etc/passwd-cosfs

2. Run the tool

After the configuration of key file, mount the bucket to the specified directory using the following command:

cosfs <BucketName-APPID> <MountPoint> -ourl=<CosDomainName> -odbglevel=info -oallow_other

Where:

• <MountPoint> is the local directory to which you want to mount the bucket (e.g. /mnt).
• <CosDomainName> is the access domain name for the bucket and is in a form of http://cos.<Region>.myqcloud.com (applicable to XML APIs and should not contain the bucket name). <Region> is the region name in short, for example, ap-guangzhou and eu-frankfurt. For more information, see Regions and Endpoints.
• -odbglevel specifies the log level.
• -oallow_other Allow non-mount users to access the mount folder.

Sample:

mkdir -p /mnt/cosfs
cosfs examplebucket-1250000000 /mnt/cosfs -ourl=http://cos.ap-guangzhou.myqcloud.com -odbglevel=info -onoxattr -oallow_other

The mounting command for the COSFS earlier than v1.0.5 is as follows:

cosfs <APPID>:<BucketName> <MountPoint> -ourl=<CosDomainName> -oallow_other

The configuration file for the COSFS earlier than v1.0.5 is in the following format:

  <BucketName>:<SecretId>:<SecretKey>

3. Unmount a bucket

Unmount a bucket using the following commands:

fusermount -u /mnt or umount -l /mnt

Common Mounting Options

-omultipart_size=[size]

Specifies the size (in MB) of each part for multipart upload. It is 10 MB by default. A maximum of 10000 parts for a single file are allowed for a multipart upload. If the file size exceeds 100 GB (10 MB * 10000), you need to adjust this parameter accordingly.

-oallow_other

Allows other users to access the folder to which the bucket is mounted.

-odel_cache

By default, to ensure optimal performance, the COSFS does not clear local cached data after a bucket is unmounted. To enable the COSFS to automatically clear cached data upon its exit, you can add this option during mounting.

-onoxattr

Disables getattr/setxattr. For the COSFS earlier than 1.0.9, you cannot set or obtain extended attributes. If the use_xattr option is used during mounting, the files may fail to be copied to the bucket.

-opasswd_file=[path]

Specifies the path for the COSFS key file. You need to set the permission for the key file to 600.

-odbglevel=[info|dbg]

Sets the level of the COSFS log record to “info” (in a production environment) or “dbg” (during debugging).

-oumask=[perm]

Removes the permission of a specified type of users to operate files in the mounting destination directory. For example, when -oumask=755, the permission for the mounting destination directory is changed to 022.

-ouid=[uid]

Allows the user whose id is [uid] to access all the files in the mounting destination directory without being restricted by the file permission bits.
You can obtain the uid of a user using the id command id -u username. For example, you can execute id -u user_00 to obtain the uid of user_00.

FAQs

For any questions about COSFS, see FAQs about COSFS.