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hello_moto on Feb 16, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Youporn.com is now a 100% Redis Site

How do you store the videos?

I remember seeing YouTube storing videos using some sort of specialized hardware from NetApp or something and they still got hit by the limitation of Linux filesystem (number of nodes?)

alanh on Feb 16, 2012 [–]

It was number of files in a directory, and those were the garage days.

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