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Re: Data file system



Hi Colin,
On 18 June 2014 21:36, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Is it not worth the trade off to make it zfs?

> --
> Colin Percival
> Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
> Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid



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