I have been able to mount Google Cloud Bucket using
gcsfuse --implicit-dirs " production-xxx-appspot /mount
or equally
sudo mount -t gcsfuse -o implicit_dirs,allow_other,uid=1000,gid=1000,key_file=service-account.json production-xxx-appspot /mount
Mounting works fine.
What happens is that when I execute the following commands after mounting, they also work fine :
mkdir /mount/files/
cp -rf /home/files/* /mount/files/
However, when I use :
mcedit /mount/files/a.txt
or
vi /mount/files/a.txt
The output says that there is no file available which makes sense.
Is there any other way to cover this situation, and use applications in a way that they can directly create files on the mounted google cloud bucket rather than creating files locally and copying afterwards.
If you do not want to create files locally and upload later, you should consider using a file storage system like Google Drive
Google Cloud storage is an object Storage system that means objects cannot be modified, you have to write the object completely at once. Object storage also does not work well with traditional databases, because writing objects is a slow process and writing an app to use an object storage API is not as simple as using file storage.
In a file storage system, Data is stored as a single piece of information inside a folder, just like you would organize pieces of paper inside a manila folder. When you need to access that piece of data, your computer needs to know the path to find it. (Beware—It can be a long, winding path.)
If you want to use Google Cloud Storage, you need to create your file locally and then push it to your bucket.
Here are an example of how to configure Google Cloud Storage with Node.js: File Upload example
Here is a tutorial on How to mount Object Storage on Cloud Server using s3fs-fuse
If you want to know more about storage formats please follow this link
More information about reading and writing to Cloud Storage in this link