Open source filesystem projects
Every project in the registry tagged filesystem, ranked by real GitHub adoption.
💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.
RustFS is an open-source, S3-compatible high-performance object storage system supporting migration and coexistence with other S3-compatible platforms such as M
Pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager
n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3.
The tensor database for AI data
All-in-One Sandbox for AI Agents that combines Browser, Shell, File, MCP and VSCode Server in a single Docker container.
Fast disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go
A simple, high-throughput file client for mounting an Amazon S3 bucket as a local file system.
A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer
ZeroFS: A log-structured filesystem for S3. ZeroFS serves S3-compatible buckets as POSIX filesystems over NFS and 9P, or as raw block devices over NBD.
A simple to deploy but feature rich S3 object storage server for your filesystem
Powerful Multi-User File Manager
Cryptographic filesystem for the cloud
✨☁️📁✨ Cloud Commander file manager for the web with console and editor.
Diskover Community Edition - Open source file indexer, file search engine and data management and analytics powered by Elasticsearch
A highly extensible private cloud storage solution for individuals and teams, featuring AI-powered semantic search.
Filesystem monitor tool for Linux/Android iOS/macOS
An android filesystem analyzer that can show you the usage of your storage!
Snappy, batteries-included terminal file manager with rich previews, inline images, bulk actions, and trash support
Highly parallelized, blazing fast directory tree analyzer
S3-compatible object storage built with Swift
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Frequently asked questions
How many open source filesystem projects are there?
This registry tracks 22 projects tagged filesystem, with 192,730 GitHub stars between them. The most-adopted is yazi at 43,172 stars.
Are these filesystem projects free to use?
Yes — 22 of the 22 carry an explicit open-source licence across 6 distinct licences, so there is no licence fee. Where a project also sells a hosted or enterprise version, the self-hosted path remains free.
Which filesystem project should I choose?
The list above is ranked by GitHub stars, but stars measure attention rather than fit. Check three things on each card: the licence (permissive versus copyleft), the language it is written in, and the last-push date — a high-star project that has not been pushed in a year is a liability.
Are these filesystem projects still maintained?
18 of the 22 were pushed in the last 90 days, and every card shows its exact last-push date so you can see the rest. Sort your shortlist by that date before committing to a migration.