Hi Colin, On 18 June 2014 21:36, Colin Percival <cperc...@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 -- ------- inum: 883510009027723 sip: jungleboo...@sip2sip.info xmpp: jungle-boo...@jit.si
