MinIO Stops Accepting Community Changes: Evaluating RustFS as a Viable S3-Compatible Object Storage Backend for Milvus
Jan 14, 2026Min Yin
Summary
This post evaluates RustFS as an S3-compatible object storage backend for Milvus, exploring its architecture and compatibility. It provides a hands-on guide to replacing MinIO with RustFS in a Milvus deployment and discusses experimental storage performance testing.
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