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Facebook To Begin Deploying Btrfs

Posted by timothy on from the so-rich-and-smooth dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After hiring the lead Btrfs developers and Linux kernel block maintainers last year, Facebook is beginning trial deployments of Btrfs. Facebook will start using the next-generation file-system within their web-tier and they will be among the first major public deployments of Btrfs."

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  1. Give me a big plate of beans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    and I'll start deploying all kinds of btrfs.

  2. How about real problems by i+kan+reed · · Score: 5, Funny

    When are they going to make the users of their website tolerable human beings instead of insane caricatures designed to make you lose all faith in humanity?

    1. Re:How about real problems by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Funny

      When are they going to make the users of their website tolerable human beings instead of insane caricatures designed to make you lose all faith in humanity?

      And ... this is different from Slashdot, how? ;-)

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    2. Re:How about real problems by kodomo · · Score: 3, Funny

      Can you explain it again, but using a car analogy?

  3. unRAID by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    unRAID should start using Btrfs filesystem,

  4. I guess Minecraft will stop using it by barlevg · · Score: 3, Funny

    If Facebook likes something, it must be evil.

  5. Sounds about right by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Btrfs

    tl;dr, I assume this is a button to let you tag people as a butterface?

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