I use this "just files on disk" feature too, I also use ZFS.

I have a bunch of crawlers uploading data to AWS S3, but S3 is too expensive, I replaced S3 with MinIO.

MinIO stores plain files on disk, which makes it a lot easier to access my data. I can read files without calling MinIO APIs, the speed is super fast.

By the way, which old version are you using? I'm using RELEASE.2022-04-26T01-20-24Z

Well... right now I am using minio version RELEASE.2021-08-31T05-46-54Z. However I really ought to upgrade that to the last supported version.

I had used pigz for a few years, now I've replace it with `xz -T0`

Indeed the China government has a good reason to concern much about information security.

You're bind-minded