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Filesystem types and performance

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Filesystem types and performance

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- [Instructor] Filesystem types differ in a number of dimensions. Reliability, unfortunately, is one of the dimensions. Some filesystems are, frankly, more debugged than others, and that's one of the most important things to make sure it doesn't have a big bug. I know folks, for example, though that build their software in a filesystem that's not particularly reliable, but it's fast. Because you check out the software and then you build it, and if you lose data, well, you just lost that build. You're not losing your software because it's still in Git or whatever. So there are situations where if your filesystem gets corrupted and you lose everything, it's not a big deal because it was just temporary. Filesystems can differ or be optimized for the size of files. So if you have a lot of little files, maybe you want one kind of filesystem. If you have a lot of large files, maybe you want a different kind of filesystem.…

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