Storage Needs on Cloud
- Blob Storage:
- A storage without a filesystem and accesible over http(s).
- File is treated as a object (binary large object)
- AWS launched Blob storage using S3 (Simple Storage Service)
- Disk Storage
- File Shares/Network Drives
- Data lakes
How Harddisks work on Linux
- Linux supports multiple file systems, popular options
- ext4
- xfs
- zfs
- btrfs
- A physical disk can be partitioned, formatted with any of the above filesystems and then mounted to a specific directory of linux
How Harddisks work on Windows
- Windows require NTFS filesystems
- A physical disk can be partioned and we can create multiple volumes (C: D: etc)
Network file shares
