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Re: Data file system



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