what instead of minio? seaweedFS?

[yarikoptic]

I discovered seaweedFS from an email of @stebo85 describing his https://github.com/Australian-Imaging-Service/ais-devstack/tree/stanford and their https://github.com/Australian-Imaging-Service/ais-edge

and its documentation for comparison against minio said

Please note, as Apr 25, 2026 MinIO ceased development.

which is apparently the case and https://github.com/minio/minio is now "archive" .

So, I wondered if anyone heard of/tried seaweed? From aforementioned comparison stating

MinIO followed AWS S3 closely and was ideal for testing for S3 API. It had good UI, policies, versionings, etc. SeaweedFS is trying to catch up here.

it sounds like seaweedFS should be a viable alternative and potentially even with some pros due target O(1) complexity on operations with many files (Zarrs!)... I quickly searched for versionId and system seems to be aware of it so should be using it.

[jjnesbitt]

All of this only matters for development purposes, but indeed SeaweedFS has been looked at by our team briefly as an alternative to MinIO. I expect we will adopt it eventually if no other, more promising alternative is found.