In the first post on this subject I discussed btrfs basics, showing how to create simple btrfs filesystems. In the second post, more on btrfs, I showed how btrfs filesystems can be dynamically resized ...

Surely somebody thinks there's a use-case for it, or the developers wouldn't recommend using a different FS, nor would they be building in this RAID 5/6 support in the first place. To be clear, we're ...

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There are few universal constants in this world, such as the speed of light or that time marches ever onwards. Another would be that there is always an ever-increasing need for additional data storage ...

Btrfs—short for “B-Tree File System” and frequently pronounced “butter” or “butter eff ess”—is the most advanced filesystem present in the mainline Linux kernel. In some ways, btrfs simply seeks to ...

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 ...

File systems are one of those things that typical end users don’t think much about. Apparently, [seaQueue] isn’t a typical end user. He’s posted some instructions on how to run an alternate file ...