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We do not have anything like Storage Gateway in front of the ECS,

The ECS does have the ability to present NFS storage but setting this up was not in the original requirements so It has not been set up.

NFS would very much require more integration with the control panel as unlike the S3 protocol there would be no way for the user to handle permissions or modify the IPs that are able to mount the exports without having to go via support ticket.

ECS NFS mount point would not be encrypted however this has not been confirmed yet, still under testing, so the data would likely be transferred in clear text into the ECS array over the public DC5 networks

its recommended not to, as the request for new data written and then trying to access it will cause the platform to work incorrectly.

• Normal filesystems used with windows, for example, adding or editing simple text files and then opening after saving work perfectly fine with filesystems ontop of block devices.
• However, if this was the case with mounting the object storage to windows, this would cause instability and panic the file system. This is due to the object storage wanting to use different nodes each time when accessing it, so when you save something node A - will become aware of the change and take a few milliseconds for all nodes to update the change, however if a file is opened and a node has not updated correctly, the filesystem will panic, hence why we don't recommend mounting object storage to windows as shared storage.

Yes we do, we have created a simple guide on how to set up our storage with existing customers using S3 browsers and Winscp 5.16.2