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, ...

A little background: I'm pretty much a Linux newb. I've been trying out various distros on various machines trying to find something that works well for me. So far, not much success. I've been ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I often work with large amounts of data, and the current file system support is insufficient for efficient data management. For example, ...

OpenSUSE 13.2 was released a week ago. As with the recent Fedora update, the latest release of openSUSE took a year to develop instead of the standard six months as the organization retooled its ...