minio – Jean's Blog

Rclone’s VFS Cache: A Deep Dive into Optimizing for a Local MinIO S3 Backend

I realized a critical detail about my setup: the standard vfs-cache strategy, which I picked previously, is a good starting point only if the cache’s performance is superior to the S3 backend. With this theory in mind, it was time to put it to the test.

Audiobookshelf with S3 using rclone

Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server, which can also be used for ebooks. I previously stored my ebooks as PDFs in paperless-ngx, but that turned out to be somewhat unwieldy. I was searching for an alternative and found Audiobookshelf, which fulfills this need perfectly.

Nextcloud and MinIO Integration: Why Direct S3 Fails and the Filesystem Abstraction Workaround

MinIO is a fantastic Object Storage solution, and I intended to use my distributed MinIO system as the primary external storage for Nextcloud. This distributed setup, which uses Sidekick as a load balancer for seamless node access, proved functional but revealed a critical stability flaw, particularly with mobile uploads.