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Re: Data file system
- To: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
- Subject: Re: Data file system
- From: jungleboogie0 <jungleboogie0@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 21:58:59 -0700
- Cc: tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com
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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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