New comment by espenb in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

espenb — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:47:22 +0000

Yes, indeed. The list operation is expensive. The S3 spec says that the list output needs to be sorted.

1. All filenames are read. 2. All filenames are sorted. 3. Pagination applied.

It doesn't scale obviously, but works ok-ish for a smaller data set. It is difficult to do this efficiently without introducing complexity. My applications don't use listing, so I prioritised simplicity over performance for the list operation.

New comment by espenb in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

espenb — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:41:43 +0000

I didn't find an alternative that I liked as much as MinIO and I, unfortunately, ended up creating a my own. It includes just the most basic features and cannot be compared to the larger projects, but is simple and it is efficient.

https://github.com/espebra/stupid-simple-s3

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New comment by espenb in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

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