This is my final post in this series about the btrfs filesystem. The first in the series covered btrfs basics, the second was resizing, multiple volumes and devices, the third was RAID and Redundancy, ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Btrfs is a failure-resistant file system that has a self-healing function and a snapshot function for files, and has been used in corporate servers. Mark said he was wondering whether to use Btrfs or ...

The Fedora Project has released Fedora 33 today bringing new software such as GNOME 3.38. A notable change on the Fedora Workstation is that BTRFS is now the default filesystem. BTRFS has been on the ...

This may not be news to the file system aware among you, but I’m part of the blissfully ignorant crowd that complains about the old file system until a shiny new one shows up — seemingly out of ...

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