What living with both taught me over time ...

I love ZFS, as anybody who's been paying attention here for the last few years already knows. But, I'm already finding stuff zfs can't do that btrfs can (along with papercuts present in btrfs, of ...

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 ...

The article on ZFS and btrfs along with recent experiences with ReFS have me kicking around the idea of setting up Ubuntu along with disk passthrough to act as the file server portion of my lab. I'd ...

ZFS will come pre-installed on Ubuntu 16.04, a move that the Software Freedom Conservancy says violates the GNU GPL license.rn I recently started using ZFS to build my file and media server with ...

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 ...

In my first post on this subject, Btrfs basics, I discussed how to create a simple btrfs filesystem, or a complete btrfs Linux system. The information and examples in that post are going to be ...

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 ...

The Red Hat-compatible AlmaLinux has been released in version 10.1. It brings packages up to date and supports Btrfs. In a blog post, the maintainers announce AlmaLinux 10.1 codenamed "Heliotrope Lion ...