Here is my notes on how to mount an s3 bucket as a file system.

This link helped me.

install necessary packages

```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc make automake autoconf libtool pkg-config intltool libglib2.0-dev libfuse-dev libxml2-dev libevent-dev libssl-dev

```

install package riofs

cd /opt

sudo git clone https://github.com/skoobe/riofs.git
cd riofs
sudo ./autogen.sh
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

edit riofs config to specify amazon s3 container access key and secret

sudo nano /usr/local/etc/riofs/riofs.conf.xml
Press Crtl + w to searc the file for AWS Access Key ID and press Enter
Remove comment syntax <!-- before this section and --> afters the section
Replace ### AWS Acess Key ID ### with your AWS Access Key ID
Replace ### AWS Secret Acess Key ### with your AWS Secret Access Key

Run the below set of commands to create a folder for the s3 bucket and mount it

sudo mkdir ~/S3
sudo riofs -o "allow_other" -c /usr/local/etc/riofs/riofs.conf.xml BucketName ~/S3

*note : the s3 folder is mounted with root permission