Those who follow Linux have certainly heard of Btrfs, a relatively new high performance file system that has a lot of people excited about its potential. Two months ago during LinuxCon Japan, we were pleased to sit down with lead developer Chris Mason from Oracle to record a short webinar that focuses on demonstrating RAID5 and RAID6 as well as recently completed features in Btrfs.
Linux Mint 10 is the first version of Linux Mint with built-in support for the B-tree File System (btrfs). Btrfs is one of the newest file systems in the Linux kernel. It is a copy on write file system with the following features: snapshotting and writtable snapshots, object-level mirroring and stripping, file system compression, multi-device [...]
A Beginner's Guide To btrfs
This guide shows how to work with the btrfs file system on Linux. It
covers creating and mounting btrfs file systems, resizing btrfs file
systems online, adding and removing devices, changing RAID levels,
creating subvolumes and snapshots, using compression and other things.
By Emma Rosenberg
In this tutorial, the reader will learn how to install the Linux Mint 12 KDE on a btrfs file system. The B-tree File system (abbreviated to acronym Btrfs) has not matured far enough to be used as a default file system on Linux machines.
Thanks to its use of Anaconda, the Fedora installer, Sabayon 5.3, the latest release of the Gentoo-based distribution, is one of the first Linux distributions with support for the btrfs file system. Btrfs is one of the newest filesystems in the Linux kernel. It is similar to Oracle’s ZFS, but lacks ZFS’ more advanced features. [...]
Like Ubuntu 11.04 on which it is based, Linux Mint 11 has support for btrfs, a modern journaling file system with features that are not available on the default file system on Linux. For example, with btrfs, you can: Writable snapshots Subvolumes (separate internal filesystem roots) Object level mirroring and striping Integrated multiple device support, [...]
Btrfs-progs, the user-space utilities to the Btrfs file-system, has seen a number of improvements in recent days that provide new features.
Btrfs-progs, the user-space utilities to the Btrfs file-system, has seen a number of improvements in recent days that provide new features.
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The Linux 3.8 kernel will bring a number of bug-fixes for the XFS file-system...
The Linux 3.8 kernel will bring a number of bug-fixes for the XFS file-system. SGI has already sent in the pull request for the XFS updates to be applied during the Linux 3.8 merge window.
Yet another improved version of the Linux kernel was baked and delivered hot and fresh last night, May 16th, by Linus Torvalds. Linux Kernel 2.6.34 includes now two new filesystems, one for flash drives (LogFS), and Ceph, a distributed network filesystem. The new kernel also includes RCU lockdep, various improvements to the Btrfs filesystem, GPU swi...
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