Linux Foundation CTO leaves for Google (internetnews.com)

Posted Jan 16, 2010 1:01 UTC (Sat) by njs (subscriber, #40338)
In reply to: Linux Foundation CTO leaves for Google (internetnews.com) by clump
Parent article: Linux Foundation CTO leaves for Google (internetnews.com)

They keep everything on local disks (who would they get remote disks from? AFAICT they have more storage than anyone else in the world).

But they do data replication at the machine level, so they don't care about journalling/raid/whatever *within* a machine -- it's useless overhead to them.

Linux Foundation CTO leaves for Google (internetnews.com)

Posted Jan 18, 2010 5:25 UTC (Mon) by jordanb (guest, #45668) [Link]

Sounds like an excellent application for ext4.