How to mount your "FreeNAS S3" service on Linux

[Husi Susi]

Hi,

It took a long time to find out how to mount my Freenas S3 share on Linux client.
Now it works! :)

1. Setup your s3 service on your FreeNAS
2. Install s3fs on your client (or s3fs-fuse)
3. Create a file with username:'password' ( Your FreeNAS S3 setup "point 1")
4. In your browser go to your FreeNAS ip':'port "http://ip:9000" and create S3 bucket
5. s3fs your_bucket /your/mount/point/ -o passwd_file=/your/password/file -o url=Your_IP:9000 -o nocopyapi -o sigv2 -o use_path_request_style
( -o nocopyapi -o sigv2 -o use_path_request_style is very important if it is non aws-s3)

That's it! You can now access your S3 files on your mount point.
I hope I saved your time.

 

[diedrichg]

How do you perform step #1 and #3? Yes, I read the docs but it's not explicit in saying if the Access Key and Secret Key can be standard user/password strings. What's with the

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in step #4? What are "buckets" and how do you use them with the s3 ecosystem in step #5?