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 ...

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 through almost every part of the hype cycle at one point or another in its short history. For a time, it was the next-generation filesystem that was going to solve many ...

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server was among the first major Linux distributions to support the Btrfs file system. One of Btrfs' many features is the option to create snapshots. To understand Btrfs ...

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 ...