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 ### Yet Another S3-backed File System: yas3fs
 
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 YAS3FS (Yet Another S3-backed File System) is a [Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE)](http://fuse.sourceforge.net)
 interface to [Amazon S3](http://aws.amazon.com/s3/).
 It was inspired by [s3fs](http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/) but rewritten from scratch to implement