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Isn't Linux the most deployed OS in industry (by practitioners)? Are the Linux hyperscalers hiding their FS secret-sauce, or perhaps the "aesthetic ideal" filesystems available to Linux good enough?


I imagine the hyperscalers are all handling integrity at a higher level where individual filesystems on single hosts are irrelevant to the outcome. In such applications, any old filesystem will do.

For people who do not have application-level integrity, the systems that offer robustness in the face of imperfect storage devices are sold by companies like NetApp, which a lot of people would sneer at but they've done the math.


Seen NetApp's boot messages, it's FreeBSD under the hood


They have their own filesystem with all manner of integrity protection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_Anywhere_File_Layout


As is EMC Isilon.




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