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 ...

zfs create -o acltype=posixacl -o xattr=sa -o atime=off -o compression=lz4 -o quota=18T -o mountpoint=/[redacted] -o encryption=aes-256-gcm \ -o keyformat=passphrase ...

What living with both taught me over time ...

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 ...

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 ...

"The Btrfs filesystem did receive numerous updates from the upstream in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 and will remain available in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 series. However, this is the last ...

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 ...

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 ...

File systems and UUIDs have a special relationship on Linux systems. What are these very long identifiers and how can you view the connections between them and disk partitions? The /etc/fstab file is ...

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 ...