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FUSE-based file system backed by Amazon S3

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Usage: s3fs BUCKET:[PATH] MOUNTPOINT [OPTION]...

Mount an Amazon S3 bucket as a file system.

Usage:
   mounting
     s3fs bucket[:/path] mountpoint [options]
     s3fs mountpoint [options (must specify bucket= option)]

   unmounting
     umount mountpoint

   General forms for s3fs and FUSE/mount options:
      -o opt[,opt...]
      -o opt [-o opt] ...

   utility mode (remove interrupted multipart uploading objects)
     s3fs --incomplete-mpu-list (-u) bucket
     s3fs --incomplete-mpu-abort[=all | =<date format>] bucket

s3fs Options:

   Most s3fs options are given in the form where "opt" is:

             <option_name>=<option_value>

   bucket
      - if it is not specified bucket name (and path) in command line,
        must specify this option after -o option for bucket name.

   default_acl (default="private")
      - the default canned acl to apply to all written s3 objects,
        e.g., private, public-read. see
        https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
        for the full list of canned ACLs

   retries (default="5")
      - number of times to retry a failed S3 transaction

   tmpdir (default="/tmp")
      - local folder for temporary files.

   use_cache (default="" which means disabled)
      - local folder to use for local file cache

   check_cache_dir_exist (default is disable)
      - if use_cache is set, check if the cache directory exists.
        If this option is not specified, it will be created at runtime
        when the cache directory does not exist.

   del_cache (delete local file cache)
      - delete local file cache when s3fs starts and exits.

   storage_class (default="standard")
      - store object with specified storage class. Possible values:
        standard, standard_ia, onezone_ia, reduced_redundancy,
        intelligent_tiering, glacier, glacier_ir, and deep_archive.

   use_rrs (default is disable)
      - use Amazon's Reduced Redundancy Storage.
        this option can not be specified with use_sse.
        (can specify use_rrs=1 for old version)
        this option has been replaced by new storage_class option.

   use_sse (default is disable)
      - Specify three type Amazon's Server-Site Encryption: SSE-S3,
        SSE-C or SSE-KMS. SSE-S3 uses Amazon S3-managed encryption
        keys, SSE-C uses customer-provided encryption keys, and
        SSE-KMS uses the master key which you manage in AWS KMS.
        You can specify "use_sse" or "use_sse=1" enables SSE-S3
        type (use_sse=1 is old type parameter).
        Case of setting SSE-C, you can specify "use_sse=custom",
        "use_sse=custom:<custom key file path>" or
        "use_sse=<custom key file path>" (only <custom key file path>
        specified is old type parameter). You can use "c" for
        short "custom".
        The custom key file must be 600 permission. The file can
        have some lines, each line is one SSE-C key. The first line
        in file is used as Customer-Provided Encryption Keys for
        uploading and changing headers etc. If there are some keys
        after first line, those are used downloading object which
        are encrypted by not first key. So that, you can keep all
        SSE-C keys in file, that is SSE-C key history.
        If you specify "custom" ("c") without file path, you
        need to set custom key by load_sse_c option or AWSSSECKEYS
        environment. (AWSSSECKEYS environment has some SSE-C keys
        with ":" separator.) This option is used to decide the
        SSE type. So that if you do not want to encrypt a object
        object at uploading, but you need to decrypt encrypted
        object at downloading, you can use load_sse_c option instead
        of this option.
        For setting SSE-KMS, specify "use_sse=kmsid" or
        "use_sse=kmsid:<kms id>". You can use "k" for short "kmsid".
        If you san specify SSE-KMS type with your <kms id> in AWS
        KMS, you can set it after "kmsid:" (or "k:"). If you
        specify only "kmsid" ("k"), you need to set AWSSSEKMSID
        environment which value is <kms id>. You must be careful
        about that you can not use the KMS id which is not same EC2
        region.
        Additionally, if you specify SSE-KMS, your endpoints must use
        Secure Sockets Layer(SSL) or Transport Layer Security(TLS).

   load_sse_c - specify SSE-C keys
        Specify the custom-provided encryption keys file path for decrypting
        at downloading.
        If you use the custom-provided encryption key at uploading, you
        specify with "use_sse=custom". The file has many lines, one line
        means one custom key. So that you can keep all SSE-C keys in file,
        that is SSE-C key history. AWSSSECKEYS environment is as same as this
        file contents.

   public_bucket (default="" which means disabled)
      - anonymously mount a public bucket when set to 1, ignores the
        $HOME/.passwd-s3fs and /etc/passwd-s3fs files.
        S3 does not allow copy object api for anonymous users, then
        s3fs sets nocopyapi option automatically when public_bucket=1
        option is specified.

   passwd_file (default="")
      - specify which s3fs password file to use

   ahbe_conf (default="" which means disabled)
      - This option specifies the configuration file path which
      file is the additional HTTP header by file (object) extension.
      The configuration file format is below:
      -----------
      line         = [file suffix or regex] HTTP-header [HTTP-values]
      file suffix  = file (object) suffix, if this field is empty,
                     it means "reg:(.*)".(=all object).
      regex        = regular expression to match the file (object) path.
                     this type starts with "reg:" prefix.
      HTTP-header  = additional HTTP header name
      HTTP-values  = additional HTTP header value
      -----------
      Sample:
      -----------
      .gz                    Content-Encoding  gzip
      .Z                     Content-Encoding  compress
      reg:^/MYDIR/(.*)[.]t2$ Content-Encoding  text2
      -----------
      A sample configuration file is uploaded in "test" directory.
      If you specify this option for set "Content-Encoding" HTTP
      header, please take care for RFC 2616.

   profile (default="default")
      - Choose a profile from ${HOME}/.aws/credentials to authenticate
        against S3. Note that this format matches the AWS CLI format and
        differs from the s3fs passwd format.

   connect_timeout (default="300" seconds)
      - time to wait for connection before giving up

   readwrite_timeout (default="120" seconds)
      - time to wait between read/write activity before giving up

   list_object_max_keys (default="1000")
      - specify the maximum number of keys returned by S3 list object
        API. The default is 1000. you can set this value to 1000 or more.

   max_stat_cache_size (default="100,000" entries (about 40MB))
      - maximum number of entries in the stat cache, and this maximum is
        also treated as the number of symbolic link cache.

   stat_cache_expire (default is 900))
      - specify expire time (seconds) for entries in the stat cache.
        This expire time indicates the time since stat cached.

   stat_cache_interval_expire (default is 900)
      - specify expire time (seconds) for entries in the stat cache.
      This expire time is based on the time from the last access time
      of the stat cache. This option is exclusive with stat_cache_expire,
      and is left for compatibility with older versions.

   enable_negative_cache (default is enabled negative cache)
      - This option will keep non-existence of objects in a stat cache.
        When this negative cache is enabled, it will not process extra
        HeadObject requests to search for non-existent objects, improving
        performance.
        This feature is enabled by default, so there is no need to specify
        it.

   disable_negative_cache (default is enabled negative cache)
      - By default, s3fs keeps non-existent objects in the stat cache.
        This option disables this negative caching.
        This prevents delays in updates due to cache retention.
        However, it may increase the number of HeadObject requests to check
        if an object exists, which may decrease performance.

   no_check_certificate
      - server certificate won't be checked against the available
      certificate authorities.

   ssl_verify_hostname (default="2")
      - When 0, do not verify the SSL certificate against the hostname.

   ssl_client_cert (default="")
      - Specify an SSL client certificate.
      Specify this optional parameter in the following format:
      "<SSL Cert>[:<Cert Type>[:<Private Key>[:<Key Type>
                                                   [:<Password>]]]]"
      <SSL Cert>:    Client certificate.
                     Specify the file path or NickName(for NSS, etc.).
      <Cert Type>:   Type of certificate, default is "PEM"(optional).
      <Private Key>: Certificate's private key file(optional).
      <Key Type>:    Type of private key, default is "PEM"(optional).
      <Password>:    Passphrase of the private key(optional).
                     It is also possible to omit this value and specify
                     it using the environment variable
                     "S3FS_SSL_PRIVKEY_PASSWORD".

   nodnscache (disable DNS cache)
      - s3fs is always using DNS cache, this option make DNS cache disable.

   nosscache (disable SSL session cache)
      - s3fs is always using SSL session cache, this option make SSL
      session cache disable.

   multipart_size (default="10")
      - part size, in MB, for each multipart request.
      The minimum value is 5 MB and the maximum value is 5 GB.

   multipart_copy_size (default="512")
      - part size, in MB, for each multipart copy request, used for
      renames and mixupload.
      The minimum value is 5 MB and the maximum value is 5 GB.
      Must be at least 512 MB to copy the maximum 5 TB object size
      but lower values may improve performance.

   max_dirty_data (default="5120")
      - flush dirty data to S3 after a certain number of MB written.
      The minimum value is 50 MB. -1 value means disable.
      Cannot be used with nomixupload.

   bucket_size (default=maximum long unsigned integer value)
      - The size of the bucket with which the corresponding
      elements of the statvfs structure will be filled. The option
      argument is an integer optionally followed by a
      multiplicative suffix (GB, GiB, TB, TiB, PB, PiB,
      EB, EiB) (no spaces in between). If no suffix is supplied,
      bytes are assumed; eg: 20000000, 30GB, 45TiB. Note that
      s3fs does not compute the actual volume size (too
      expensive): by default it will assume the maximum possible
      size; however, since this may confuse other software which
      uses s3fs, the advertised bucket size can be set with this
      option.

   ensure_diskfree (default 0)
      - sets MB to ensure disk free space. This option means the
        threshold of free space size on disk which is used for the
        cache file by s3fs. s3fs makes file for
        downloading, uploading and caching files. If the disk free
        space is smaller than this value, s3fs do not use disk space
        as possible in exchange for the performance.

   free_space_ratio (default="10")
      - sets min free space ratio of the disk.
      The value of this option can be between 0 and 100. It will control
      the size of the cache according to this ratio to ensure that the
      idle ratio of the disk is greater than this value.
      For example, when the disk space is 50GB, the default value will
      ensure that the disk will reserve at least 50GB * 10% = 5GB of
      remaining space.

   multipart_threshold (default="25")
      - threshold, in MB, to use multipart upload instead of
        single-part. Must be at least 5 MB.

   singlepart_copy_limit (default="512")
      - maximum size, in MB, of a single-part copy before trying
      multipart copy.

   host (default="https://s3.amazonaws.com")
      - Set a non-Amazon host, e.g., https://example.com.

   servicepath (default="/")
      - Set a service path when the non-Amazon host requires a prefix.

   url (default="https://s3.amazonaws.com")
      - sets the url to use to access Amazon S3. If you want to use HTTP,
        then you can set "url=http://s3.amazonaws.com".
        If you do not use https, please specify the URL with the url
        option.

   region (default="us-east-1")
      - sets the region to use on signature version 4
      If this option is not specified, s3fs uses "us-east-1" region as
      the default. If the s3fs could not connect to the region specified
      by this option, s3fs could not run. But if you do not specify this
      option, and if you can not connect with the default region, s3fs
      will retry to automatically connect to the other region. So s3fs
      can know the correct region name, because s3fs can find it in an
      error from the S3 server.
      You can also specify the legacy -o endpoint which means the same thing.

   sigv2 (default is signature version 4 falling back to version 2)
      - sets signing AWS requests by using only signature version 2

   sigv4 (default is signature version 4 falling back to version 2)
      - sets signing AWS requests by using only signature version 4

   mp_umask (default is "0000")
      - sets umask for the mount point directory.
      If allow_other option is not set, s3fs allows access to the mount
      point only to the owner. In the opposite case s3fs allows access
      to all users as the default. But if you set the allow_other with
      this option, you can control the permissions of the
      mount point by this option like umask.

   umask (default is "0000")
      - sets umask for files under the mountpoint. This can allow
      users other than the mounting user to read and write to files
      that they did not create.

   nomultipart (disable multipart uploads)

   streamupload (default is disable)
      - Enable stream upload.
      If this option is enabled, a sequential upload will be performed
      in parallel with the write from the part that has been written
      during a multipart upload.
      This is expected to give better performance than other upload
      functions.
      Note that this option is still experimental and may change in the
      future.

   max_thread_count (default is "10")
      - This value is the maximum number of parallel requests to be
      sent, and the number of parallel processes for head requests,
      multipart uploads and stream uploads.
      Worker threads will be started to process requests according to
      this value.

   enable_content_md5 (default is disable)
      - Allow S3 server to check data integrity of uploads via the
      Content-MD5 header. This can add CPU overhead to transfers.

   enable_unsigned_payload (default is disable)
      - Do not calculate Content-SHA256 for PutObject and UploadPart
      payloads. This can reduce CPU overhead to transfers.

   ecs (default is disable)
      - This option instructs s3fs to query the ECS container credential
      metadata address instead of the instance metadata address.

   iam_role (default is no IAM role)
      - This option requires the IAM role name or "auto". If you specify
      "auto", s3fs will automatically use the IAM role names that are set
      to an instance. If you specify this option without any argument, it
      is the same as that you have specified the "auto".

   imdsv1only (default is to use IMDSv2 with fallback to v1)
      - AWS instance metadata service, used with IAM role authentication,
      supports the use of an API token. If you're using an IAM role
      in an environment that does not support IMDSv2, setting this flag
      will skip retrieval and usage of the API token when retrieving
      IAM credentials.

   ibm_iam_auth (default is not using IBM IAM authentication)
      - This option instructs s3fs to use IBM IAM authentication.
      In this mode, the AWSAccessKey and AWSSecretKey will be used as
      IBM's Service-Instance-ID and APIKey, respectively.

   ibm_iam_endpoint (default is https://iam.cloud.ibm.com)
      - sets the URL to use for IBM IAM authentication.

   credlib (default="" which means disabled)
      - Specifies the shared library that handles the credentials
      containing the authentication token.
      If this option is specified, the specified credential and token
      processing provided by the shared library ant will be performed
      instead of the built-in credential processing.
      This option cannot be specified with passwd_file, profile,
      use_session_token, ecs, ibm_iam_auth, ibm_iam_endpoint, imdsv1only
      and iam_role option.

   credlib_opts (default="" which means disabled)
      - Specifies the options to pass when the shared library specified
      in credlib is loaded and then initialized.
      For the string specified in this option, specify the string defined
      by the shared library.

   use_xattr (default is not handling the extended attribute)
      Enable to handle the extended attribute (xattrs).
      If you set this option, you can use the extended attribute.
      For example, encfs and ecryptfs need to support the extended attribute.
      Notice: if s3fs handles the extended attribute, s3fs can not work to
      copy command with preserve=mode.

   noxmlns (disable registering xml name space)
        disable registering xml name space for response of
        ListBucketResult and ListVersionsResult etc. Default name
        space is looked up from "http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01".
        This option should not be specified now, because s3fs looks up
        xmlns automatically after v1.66.

   nomixupload (disable copy in multipart uploads)
        Disable to use PUT (copy api) when multipart uploading large size objects.
        By default, when doing multipart upload, the range of unchanged data
        will use PUT (copy api) whenever possible.
        When nocopyapi or norenameapi is specified, use of PUT (copy api) is
        invalidated even if this option is not specified.

   nocopyapi (for other incomplete compatibility object storage)
        Enable compatibility with S3-like APIs which do not support
        PUT (copy api).
        If you set this option, s3fs do not use PUT with
        "x-amz-copy-source" (copy api). Because traffic is increased
        2-3 times by this option, we do not recommend this.

   norenameapi (for other incomplete compatibility object storage)
        Enable compatibility with S3-like APIs which do not support
        PUT (copy api).
        This option is a subset of nocopyapi option. The nocopyapi
        option does not use copy-api for all command (ex. chmod, chown,
        touch, mv, etc), but this option does not use copy-api for
        only rename command (ex. mv). If this option is specified with
        nocopyapi, then s3fs ignores it.

   use_path_request_style (use legacy API calling style)
        Enable compatibility with S3-like APIs which do not support
        the virtual-host request style, by using the older path request
        style.

   listobjectsv2 (use ListObjectsV2)
        Issue ListObjectsV2 instead of ListObjects, useful on object
        stores without ListObjects support.

   noua (suppress User-Agent header)
        Usually s3fs outputs of the User-Agent in "s3fs/<version> (commit
        hash <hash>; <using ssl library name>)" format.
        If this option is specified, s3fs suppresses the output of the
        User-Agent.

   cipher_suites
        Customize the list of TLS cipher suites.
        Expects a colon separated list of cipher suite names.
        A list of available cipher suites, depending on your TLS engine,
        can be found on the CURL library documentation:
        https://curl.haxx.se/docs/ssl-ciphers.html

   instance_name - The instance name of the current s3fs mountpoint.
        This name will be added to logging messages and user agent headers sent by s3fs.

   complement_stat (complement lack of file/directory mode)
        s3fs complements lack of information about file/directory mode
        if a file or a directory object does not have x-amz-meta-mode
        header. As default, s3fs does not complements stat information
        for a object, then the object will not be able to be allowed to
        list/modify.

   compat_dir (enable support of alternative directory names)
        s3fs supports two different naming schemas "dir/" and
        "dir" to map directory names to S3 objects and
        vice versa by default. As a third variant, directories can be
        determined indirectly if there is a file object with a path (e.g.
        "/dir/file") but without the parent directory.
        This option enables a fourth variant, "dir_$folder$", created by
        older applications.

        S3fs uses only the first schema "dir/" to create S3 objects for
        directories.
        The support for these different naming schemas causes an increased
        communication effort.

   use_wtf8 - support arbitrary file system encoding.
        S3 requires all object names to be valid UTF-8. But some
        clients, notably Windows NFS clients, use their own encoding.
        This option re-encodes invalid UTF-8 object names into valid
        UTF-8 by mapping offending codes into a 'private' codepage of the
        Unicode set.
        Useful on clients not using UTF-8 as their file system encoding.

   use_session_token - indicate that session token should be provided.
        If credentials are provided by environment variables this switch
        forces presence check of AWSSESSIONTOKEN variable.
        Otherwise an error is returned.

   requester_pays (default is disable)
        This option instructs s3fs to enable requests involving
        Requester Pays buckets.
        It includes the 'x-amz-request-payer=requester' entry in the
        request header.

   mime (default is "/etc/mime.types")
        Specify the path of the mime.types file.
        If this option is not specified, the existence of "/etc/mime.types"
        is checked, and that file is loaded as mime information.
        If this file does not exist on macOS, then "/etc/apache2/mime.types"
        is checked as well.

   proxy (default="")
        This option specifies a proxy to S3 server.
        Specify the proxy with '[<scheme://]hostname(fqdn)[:<port>]' formatted.
        '<schema>://' can be omitted, and 'http://' is used when omitted.
        Also, ':<port>' can also be omitted. If omitted, port 443 is used for
        HTTPS schema, and port 1080 is used otherwise.
        This option is the same as the curl command's '--proxy(-x)' option and
        libcurl's 'CURLOPT_PROXY' flag.
        This option is equivalent to and takes precedence over the environment
        variables 'http_proxy', 'all_proxy', etc.

   proxy_cred_file (default="")
        This option specifies the file that describes the username and
        passphrase for authentication of the proxy when the HTTP schema
        proxy is specified by the 'proxy' option.
        Username and passphrase are valid only for HTTP schema. If the HTTP
        proxy does not require authentication, this option is not required.
        Separate the username and passphrase with a ':' character and
        specify each as a URL-encoded string.

   ipresolve (default="whatever")
        Select what type of IP addresses to use when establishing a
        connection.
        Default('whatever') can use addresses of all IP versions(IPv4 and
        IPv6) that your system allows. If you specify 'IPv4', only IPv4
        addresses are used. And when 'IPv6'is specified, only IPv6 addresses
        will be used.

   logfile - specify the log output file.
        s3fs outputs the log file to syslog. Alternatively, if s3fs is
        started with the "-f" option specified, the log will be output
        to the stdout/stderr.
        You can use this option to specify the log file that s3fs outputs.
        If you specify a log file with this option, it will reopen the log
        file when s3fs receives a SIGHUP signal. You can use the SIGHUP
        signal for log rotation.

   dbglevel (default="crit")
        Set the debug message level. set value as crit (critical), err
        (error), warn (warning), info (information) to debug level.
        default debug level is critical. If s3fs run with "-d" option,
        the debug level is set information. When s3fs catch the signal
        SIGUSR2, the debug level is bump up.

   curldbg - put curl debug message
        Put the debug message from libcurl when this option is specified.
        Specify "normal" or "body" for the parameter.
        If the parameter is omitted, it is the same as "normal".
        If "body" is specified, some API communication body data will be
        output in addition to the debug message output as "normal".

   no_time_stamp_msg - no time stamp in debug message
        The time stamp is output to the debug message by default.
        If this option is specified, the time stamp will not be output
        in the debug message.
        It is the same even if the environment variable "S3FS_MSGTIMESTAMP"
        is set to "no".

   set_check_cache_sigusr1 (default is stdout)
        If the cache is enabled, you can check the integrity of the
        cache file and the cache file's stats info file.
        This option is specified and when sending the SIGUSR1 signal
        to the s3fs process checks the cache status at that time.
        This option can take a file path as parameter to output the
        check result to that file. The file path parameter can be omitted.
        If omitted, the result will be output to stdout or syslog.

   update_parent_dir_stat (default is disable)
        The parent directory's mtime and ctime are updated when a file or
        directory is created or deleted (when the parent directory's inode is
        updated).
        By default, parent directory statistics are not updated.

FUSE/mount Options:

   Most of the generic mount options described in 'man mount' are
   supported (ro, rw, suid, nosuid, dev, nodev, exec, noexec, atime,
   noatime, sync async, dirsync). Filesystems are mounted with
   '-onodev,nosuid' by default, which can only be overridden by a
   privileged user.

   There are many FUSE specific mount options that can be specified.
   e.g. allow_other  See the FUSE's README for the full set.

Utility mode Options:

 -u, --incomplete-mpu-list
        Lists multipart incomplete objects uploaded to the specified
        bucket.
 --incomplete-mpu-abort (=all or =<date format>)
        Delete the multipart incomplete object uploaded to the specified
        bucket.
        If "all" is specified for this option, all multipart incomplete
        objects will be deleted. If you specify no argument as an option,
        objects older than 24 hours (24H) will be deleted (This is the
        default value). You can specify an optional date format. It can
        be specified as year, month, day, hour, minute, second, and it is
        expressed as "Y", "M", "D", "h", "m", "s" respectively.
        For example, "1Y6M10D12h30m30s".

Miscellaneous Options:

 -h, --help        Output this help.
     --version     Output version info.
 -d  --debug       Turn on DEBUG messages to syslog. Specifying -d
                   twice turns on FUSE debug messages to STDOUT.
 -f                FUSE foreground option - do not run as daemon.
 -s                FUSE single-threaded option
                   disable multi-threaded operation


s3fs home page: <https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse>
Options (8)
OptionDescriptionSource
-o optif it is not specified bucket name (and path) in command line, must specify this option after -o option for bucket name.help + man
-u, --incomplete-mpu-listLists multipart incomplete objects uploaded to the specified bucket.help + man
-h, --help --helpOutput this help.help + man
--versionOutput version info.help + man
-d--debug Turn on DEBUG messages to syslog.help
-fFUSE foreground option - do not run as daemon.help + man
-sFUSE single-threaded option (disables multi-threaded operation)help + man
--incomplete-mpu-abort allDelete the multipart incomplete object uploaded to the specified bucket. (in the manual page but not in --help)man

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