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For one, SeaweedFS states that it is not POSIX-compliant.

It's not a filesystem either...I don't get why they keep using that terminology. It doesn't have directories, permissions, seek(), copy without the client pulling all the data and pushing it back, etc.

It's a KV data store. Which is fine...nothing wrong with that. It just isn't a filesystem in any sense I'm familiar with.

Edit: Ahh, I see. There's an optional piece that does provide at least directories. Still short of being a "filesystem" IMO, though: https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs/wiki/Filer

There are many ways to build a filer layer. Current implementation is just one way to do it.

Adding POSIX or not is more of a design choice. The blob storage layer can support both ways.

Right. The word filesystem has a defacto meaning for many, though. Not POSIX either...FAT, NTFS, etc are filesystems. There's implied functionality that goes with the word.

This isn't a filesystem anymore than etcd would be.

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