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It'd be very interesting if BackBlaze open-sourced at least part of their code. It may be optimized for archival purposes but they're sticking your data on multiple 180TB pods using an open-source stack.

JFS file system, and the only access we then allow to this totally self-contained storage building block is through HTTPS running custom Backblaze application layer logic in Apache Tomcat 5.5. After taking all this into account, the formatted (useable) space is 87 percent of the raw hard drive totals. One of the most important concepts here is that to store or retrieve data with a Backblaze Storage Pod, it is always through HTTPS. There is no iSCSI, no NFS, no SQL, no Fibre Channel.




Why do they need the overhead of HTTPS for internal use like this?




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