Mount Tigris as a Filesystem
For AI workloads, most runtimes assume data is accessible via a filesystem. By mounting a Tigris bucket as a filesystem, data is no longer limited by local storage nor memory capacity.
We provide TigrisFS a fork of the original yandex-cloud/geesefs project with optimizations for Tigris. TigrisFS is a FUSE-based filesystem that mounts S3-compatible storage as a local filesystem. You can use TigrisFS to mount any Tigris bucket as if it was a normal Linux filesystem.
TigrisFS does not obfuscate the objects in the bucket, and does not require an additional metadata service (unlike JuiceFS). This means you can access the objects directly via the S3-compatible API using the standard S3 SDKs, tools, and libraries, as well as via the TigrisFS filesystem.
Prerequisites:
- A Tigris account
- A bucket you want to mount into your system (
mybucket) - A target location you want to mount your bucket to (
~/data)
TigrisFS uses FUSE to mount buckets into the filesystem. FUSE has limitations involving multiple users accessing the same mountpoint. If you need multiple users (human or service) to access the same bucket, consider creating multiple systemd services mounting the bucket in each user's home directory.
Installing TigrisFS
Download the latest release for your machine from the list of TigrisFS releases
Debian Linux
wget https://github.com/tigrisdata/tigrisfs/releases/download/v1.1.2/tigrisfs_1.1.2_linux_amd64.deb
dpkg -i tigrisfs_1.1.2_linux_amd64.deb
MacOS ARM64
curl -sL https://github.com/tigrisdata/tigrisfs/releases/download/v1.1.2/tigrisfs_1.1.2_darwin_arm64.tar.gz | sudo tar -xz -C /usr/local/bin
Configure credentials
Create a new access key with edit permissions on your target bucket in the Tigris Dashboard. Configure the aws-cli to utilize the credentials as described in the guide here.
Mount bucket
Using systemd
When installed from the DEB or RPM package, TigrisFS installs a systemd service to simplify mounting and configuration.
Mount as current user:
systemctl --user start tigrisfs@<bucket>
Mount as root:
systemctl start tigrisfs@<bucket>
The bucket is mounted at $HOME/mnt/tigrisfs/<bucket> for the current user, or
/mnt/tigrisfs/<bucket> for root.
To automount the bucket at boot or user login, enable the systemd service:
systemctl enable tigrisfs@<bucket> # as root
systemctl --user enable tigrisfs@<bucket> # as current user
Using the command line
To mount the bucket using the command line, run the following command:
/usr/local/bin/tigrisfs <bucket> <mountpoint>
You did it! You now have a performant filesystem backed by bottomless object storage.