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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. Re:I guess Minecraft will stop using it by vux984 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If Facebook likes something, it must be evil.

    If facebook buys something outright, it will be turned to social-shit. FTFY.

    If I happen to share Zuckershits taste in coffee makers, that won't affect my enjoyment of the coffee maker. On the other hand, if Facebook buys out my favorite coffee maker... then yeah, my next coffee maker will be a brand that doesn't try and change my status to "making facebook coffee" everytime I brew a cup. (Well... I don't have a facebook account so that's moot... although I expect a facebook coffeemaker would require one before allowing coffee to be brewed so... there's that.)

  2. Re:btrfs? by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 4, Interesting

    LOL, nice! Or ...

    * Broken To Read Free Space
    * Broken Treatment Reading Free Space

    btrfs FAQ 4.4 - 4.8
    * 4.4 Why does df show incorrect free space for my RAID volume?
    * 4.5 Aaargh! My filesystem is full, and I've put almost nothing into it!
    * 4.6 Why are there so many ways to check the amount of free space?
    * 4.6.1 Raw disk usage
    * 4.6.2 Actual data
    * 4.7 Why is free space so complicated?
    * 4.8 Why is there so much space overhead?
    https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/...

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