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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. 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?

  2. 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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  3. Re:Trial by fire... by mcrbids · · Score: 5, Informative

    Realistically, it would be nice to see the native (not FUSE based) code from OpenZFS be included as an alternative, but the CDDL/GPL conflicts likely will make this a no-go.

    Well, isn't this your lucky day, then? ZFS on Linux works now, today, without the use of FUSE. Nothing about the license conflicts prohibits use or distribution, just distribution together. I have ZFS/Linux servers in production right now, and they are quite stable. Starting with a vanilla install of CentOS, the instructions are roughly:

    1) Install the yum repo file.
    2) yum Install kernel-devel zfs
    3) Start the ZFS service.
    4) Start creating ZFS volumes....

    A reboot isn't typically necessary... (though not a bad idea)

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