Oh, and if you want to use it as the backing store for a database consider obstore instead of s3fs: https://developmentseed.org/blog/2025-08-01-obstore/

I’d use an s3 bucket with s3fs. Since you want to host it yourself, Minio is the open-source tool to use instead of s3.

Thanks, id been thinking about getting one for my next laptop. Now I’ll rethink that. The issues you describe do seem.particularly annoying.