Facebook To Begin Deploying Btrfs File-System

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Submission + - Facebook To Begin Deploying Btrfs File-System (phoronix.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 27, 2014 @01:12PM

An anonymous reader writes: After hiring the lead Btrfs developers and Linux kernel block maintainers last year,, Facebook is beginning trial deployments of Btrfs. Facebook will start using the next-generation file-system within their web-tier and they will be among the first major public deployments of Btrfs.

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