I'm putting together a file server and planned on using an ext4 formatted SSD as the boot disk and a spare 2.5" hdd as a scratch disk for things that don't benefit from the speed of a SSD, with mostly ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve used Windows, you may be familiar with the System Restore tool. This tool creates snapshots — restore points that allow you to revert your PC’s state to a previous point in time. Say, for ...

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The B-tree file system (Btrfs) is a type of file system with a copy-on-write principle and a logical volume manager. Originally developed to address the lack of snapshots, integrity checking, data ...

This is the second article in a series on the Btrfs filesystem; those who have not seen the first segment may wish to take a quick look. This installment will cover the basics of finding the requisite ...

The Btrfs filesystem has been under development for the last year or so; for much of that time, it has been widely regarded as the most likely "next generation filesystem" for Linux. But, before it ...

File systems are one of those things that typical end users don’t think much about. Apparently, [seaQueue] isn’t a typical end user. He’s posted some instructions on how to run an alternate file ...

When it was first launched in 2009, the Btrfs file system had a promising future. Many expected Btrfs to replace ZFS, a file system that hadn't made it into the Linux operating system for legal ...