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		wazoox on April 10, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought for a C... Except for the part where you want integrity; AFAIK only xfs guarantees truly atomic snapshotting thanks to xfs_freeze. Furthermore, it's also (by an extremely large margin) your best choice if you need a filesystem bigger than 16 TB.

regularfry on April 10, 2012 [–]

Allegedly other filesystems have had a similar freeze added since then.

wazoox on April 10, 2012 | [–]

Actually it was added to the vfs layer IIRC, around 2.6.30.

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