Btrfs Has Saved Meta "Billions of Dollars" in Infrastructure Costs
14 days ago
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- Meta (Facebook) is a prominent user of the Btrfs file-system.
- Meta employs engineers dedicated to Btrfs and uses it extensively in production.
- Btrfs has saved Meta 'billions of dollars' in infrastructure costs due to its advanced features and robustness.
- Josef Bacik, a Btrfs engineer at Meta, highlighted the significant impact of Btrfs on Meta's infrastructure.
- The discussion around Btrfs's success comes amid debates about Bcachefs in the Linux kernel.