# SeaweedFS

> SeaweedFS is a free, open-source app you can self-host in the object storage category. SeaweedFS is an open source distributed file system supporting WebDAV, S3 API, FUSE mount, HDFS, etc, optimized for lots of small files, and easy to add capacity. It has 35,262 GitHub stars, is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs |
| GitHub stars | 35,262 |
| Forks | 3,041 |
| Open issues | 681 |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| License type | Open source |
| Language | Go |
| Docker image | No |
| Platforms | Go |
| Categories | Object Storage |
| Commits, last 12 months | 3,354 |
| Last commit | Oct 6, 2026 |
| Latest release | 4.48 (Sep 28, 2026) |
| Created | Jul 14, 2014 |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained |
| Archived | No |

Topics: distributed-storage, distributed-systems, s3, hdfs, fuse, distributed-file-system, hadoop-hdfs, posix, tiered-file-system, kubernetes

## Install

SeaweedFS installs natively; follow the README at https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs.

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