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Re:The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought for a Cool Bil... by riledhel on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @10:56AM (#3822419)
Why wouldn't? is there a better alternative to freeze a filesystem and take a AWS snapshot from it?
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Re:The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought for a Cool Bil... by regularfry on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @11:55AM (#3822772)
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6... would indicate that the ability to freeze has been added to other filesystems since ec2-consistent-snapshot was first written. I've got no data on whether they're equivalently robust. If freezing was the only reason to go for xfs, then that decision would seem to be open to more alternatives now.
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