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		amluto 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building blobd: single-machine object store with s... That’s a lot of work creating a whole system that stores data on a raw block device. It would be nice to see this compared to… a filesystem. XFS, ZFS and btrfs are pretty popular.

bionsystem 6 months ago [–]

I don't quite understand the point, why would anybody use S3 then ?

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