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A comment on Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019. Parent comment

Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019 by jcims on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @12:15PM (#20626546)
The problem is the duration and durability of the exercise when you have millions of objects in the bucket. It could easily take days.
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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019 by jandrese on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @01:26PM (#20627384)
At least it's the kind of problem you can come back to and restart if the process dies in the middle. You're bulk deleting data so maintaining integrity isn't a concern.
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