Use the bucket listing's delimter parameter to simulate directory structure

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Unfortunately s3fs is not able to list the contents of existing buckets
which use slashes to simulate directory structure.  Instead s3fs creates a
meta directory.  If this meta directory doesn't exist then the contents of
the directory will not be listed.

Other programs such as S3Fox also use meta directories, albeit, in a way
incompatiable with s3fs.

This raises the issue of why meta directories are necessary in the first
place as S3 allows directory structures to be simulated via the "prefix"
parameter of the bucket listing call.  (See
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/2006-03-01/index.html?RESTBucketGET.h
tml).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by chicagok...@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2008 at 3:30

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hmmm... wondering if this was actually posted in the wrong project?!? =)

s3fs does not create a "meta directory"; s3fs already uses delimeter=/, etc...

Original comment by rri...@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2008 at 11:46

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Closing this old issue as it appears that it might have been redirected to the 
incorrect s3fs project.

Original comment by dmoore4...@gmail.com on 3 Dec 2010 at 5:38

• Changed state: Invalid