Facebook engineer Chris Mason is unequivocal about the primacy of Linux in Facebook’s storage infrastructure.
“If it runs on a computer, and it’s storing important data,” he said, “it’s running Linux.”
Mason, speaking at the Linux Enterprise End-User Summit on Monday in New York, joined Facebook just six months ago in order to spearhead the social network’s move to btrfs (usually pronounced “butter eff ess.”), the Linux-based file system that he created in 2008 while working at Oracle.
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