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Re: Data file system
- To: jungleboogie0 <jungleboogie0@gmail.com>, tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com
- Subject: Re: Data file system
- From: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 21:35:49 -0700
- In-reply-to: <CAKE2PDtxBxuGY2-NcuUXBZdG9eHOq9=VPAg6ggqS3nfegc7QrA@mail.gmail.com>
- References: <CAKE2PDtxBxuGY2-NcuUXBZdG9eHOq9=VPAg6ggqS3nfegc7QrA@mail.gmail.com>
On 06/18/14 21:27, jungleboogie0 wrote:
> I know that Tarsnap runs on amazon s3 but what's that mean in terms of
> the file system that's used to store the data? Is it ufs, ext3/4, zfs,
> etc?
No. It isn't a file system -- just a bunch of blobs. There's an index
kept in a UFS filesystem in EC2 which says which part of which blob
contains your data.
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Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid