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 is the fourth post in the series about the btrfs filesystem. In the first post on this subject I discussed btrfs basics, showing how to create simple btrfs filesystems. In the second post, more ...

Some of the conditions he lists are the removal of the "experimental" label on btrfs (which is expected in the 2.6.35 kernel release), and support for using btrfs with GRUB2. But even if these ...

A powerful new filesystem for Linux already supports fast snapshots, checksums for all data, and online resizing–and plans to add ZFS-style built-in striping and mirroring. Chris Mason has recently ...

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 ...

The ext4 filesystem has been around for a while as experimental code in GNU/Linux distributions. Recently one distribution decided to make it the default for an install. Published in Business ...

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) ...

One of the main features planned for Fedora 16 was a switch to btrfs by default. However, as the first alpha for F16 approaches, it looks like it will be another cycle before the filesystem gets its ...

For personal devices such has home PCs and laptops, BTRFS is a no-brainer best choice. You get automated creation of instant snapshots and can easily boot from such ...