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		michaelmrose on June 19, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ZFS fans, rejoice – RAIDz expansion will be a thin... Why is Novell's statement that BTRFS is only narrowly useful trivially ignored but large companies eg Facebook using it meant to be interpreted as positive proof while handily ignoring that Facebook is using it for ephemeral data.

nix23 on June 20, 2021 [–]

>ignoring that Facebook is using it for ephemeral data

What really?? That's hilarious!! Probably just because of zstd compression i would think.

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