December 2018
Beginner
826 pages
22h 54m
English
Content preview from Linux Administration Cookbook
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The world of filesystems is an ever-evolving and ever-changing one. You'd have thought that, by now, we'd have data storage licked, but you would be wrong.
There are some filesystems that are better suited for thousands of small files (for example, databases) and some that are better suited for massive blocks of files (such as VM disks). Which one you choose to use is up to you.
There are de-duplicating, snapshotting, and even self-healing (apparently) filesystems.
FreeBSD swears by ZFS, which is also shipped in Ubuntu in the Linux world. OpenSUSE favors btrfs for a lot of its new installations, and some distributions keep with the classics, shipping the ext family for familiarity reasons.
Whichever ...