ZFS and Better File System (Btrfs) are two popular modern file systems. Both are designed with advanced storage features and offer snapshot capabilities, data integrity protection, and highly ...

The Btrfs filesystem continues to receive significant performance tuning, and one of the latest areas of focus is snapshot deletion performance. While Btrfs snapshots have long been praised for their ...

At LinuxCon North America in Toronto, Chris Mason relayed some of the experiences that his employer, Facebook, has had using Btrfs, especially with regard to its performance on high-speed solid-state ...

Linux is a powerful platform, but anyone who has used it long enough knows how fragile things can feel after a bad update, a misconfigured package, or an experiment gone wrong. Traditional backups can ...

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 ...

The Btrfs filesystem has had a long and sometimes turbulent history; LWN first wrote about it in 2007. It offers features not found in any other mainline Linux filesystem, but reliability and ...