This is the fourth post in the series about the btrfs filesystem. In the first post on this subject I discussed btrfs basics, showing how to create simple btrfs filesystems. In the second post, more ...

Btrfs is a new file system for Linux, one that is still very much in development. Although I wouldn't exactly describe it as "experimental" any more, it is, as stated in the Wiki at kernel.org, "a ...

Some of the conditions he lists are the removal of the "experimental" label on btrfs (which is expected in the 2.6.35 kernel release), and support for using btrfs with GRUB2. But even if these ...

A powerful new filesystem for Linux already supports fast snapshots, checksums for all data, and online resizing–and plans to add ZFS-style built-in striping and mirroring. Chris Mason has recently ...

Does ZFS support using random, differently-sized drives nowadays? Or converting between different RAID-profiles on-the-fly? Increasing or decreasing the number of drives in the array? I'm not trying ...

Filesystems, like file cabinets or drawers, control how your operating system stores data. They also hold metadata like filetypes, what is attached to data, and who has access to that data. For ...

Enterprise comes to the micro server. Oracle Linux 7 has been released for the Raspberry Pi 3. The release packages Btrfs as the root filesystem on the UEK-branded Linux 4.14 Long Term Support (LTS) ...

The ext4 filesystem has been around for a while as experimental code in GNU/Linux distributions. Recently one distribution decided to make it the default for an install. Published in Business ...

New filesystem technology for Linux includes high capacity, snapshots, copy-on-write, and on-the-fly corruption detection. Almost exactly one year ago, as the developers were discussing changes to the ...

I am a home user with some spare disks in different sizes. Since zfs people do not care home use, btrfs is my only hope. Just wait. Click to expand... I think it's kind of dishonest to just go and ...