Even some basic s3 storage patterns weren’t considered when the core storage scheme was designed. Lacks an index and depends on filesystem to organize objects and then crumbles to lock contention when too many versions are stored or under walkdir calls when anything is listed. It also can’t even support writing to the same set of keys as S3 should allow since it implicitly depends on underlying filesystem paths.

They might have added an index by now but gatekept it to their enterprise AIStor offering since they’ve abandoned any investment in open source at this point or appearance that they care about that. Their initial inclination in response to this issue says everything - https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/20845#issuecomment-259...