A slow disaster has been unfolding since the end of June in the BTRFS community. This open source file system, also known as the “ButterFS,” includes modern features that do not exist elsewhere on ...

In the first post on this subject I discussed btrfs basics, showing how to create simple btrfs filesystems. In the second post, more on btrfs, I showed how btrfs filesystems can be dynamically resized ...

Surely somebody thinks there's a use-case for it, or the developers wouldn't recommend using a different FS, nor would they be building in this RAID 5/6 support in the first place. To be clear, we're ...

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Currently btrfs raid56 uses stripe based error detection. This means, any error (which vary from single sector csum mismatch, to a missing device) will mark the whole ...

The previous installments of this series on the Btrfs filesystem have focused on the basics of using Btrfs like any other Linux filesystem. But Btrfs offers a number of features not supported by the ...

Canonical has made a major change to the way Ubuntu boots on devices with Secure Boot enabled to reduce the attack surface of the boot process. Ubuntu ...

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 ...

ZFS and Better File System (Btrfs) are two popular modern file systems. Both are designed with advanced storage features and offer snapshot capabilities, data integrity protection, and highly ...