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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Windows has been based around the NTFS file system for decades at this point, but outside of the Windows world, there have been a lot of developments with new file systems appearing here and there.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apple's efforts to support the development of ZFS, an advanced file system originally created by Sun, were officially terminated today in a notice posted by MacOS Forge. The tersely worded message ...