Questions for Storage Engineers

[Saket Sinha]

I agree with Valdis. This is how it works.



On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:52 AM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 23:49:48 +0530, Saket Sinha said:
>> Each filesystem has its own use-case. Like XFS is for big data, btrfs
>> with its COW and other features meets some specific use-cases like
>> facebook where they have a scenario(refer
>> http://lwn.net/Articles/591780/ ) where btrfs suites then perfectly.
>
> Right.  The point I was making is that although btrfs has some *really*
> nice use-cases, they are by and large places where IBM is *not* going
> to engage one of their storage engineers. A "use btrfs" recommendation
> is going to come from a different engineering group, and a "here's
> how to tune btrfs" is probably going to come from somebody in their
> Professional Services (at $200/hour and up).