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, ...

AlmaLinux is to support the Btrfs file system in version 10.1 of its eponymous RHELative operating system. While Red Hat deprecated Btrfs from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in 2017, the technology ...

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 ...

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 ...

WinBtrfs is a Windows driver for the next-generation Linux filesystem Btrfs. A reimplementation from scratch, it contains no code from the Linux kernel, and should work on any version from Windows XP ...

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 ...

zfs create -o acltype=posixacl -o xattr=sa -o atime=off -o compression=lz4 -o quota=18T -o mountpoint=/[redacted] -o encryption=aes-256-gcm \ -o keyformat=passphrase ...

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 ...

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 ...