Anyone else trying out the new btrfs file system?

Charlie Brune Ubuntu at BruneWorld.com
Sun May 23 17:47:57 UTC 2010


I've been looking at the new "btrfs" file system and it looks promising.

Some of its design goals are:
-- Online defrag
-- Online resizing
-- Snapshots
... and much more.  Wiki is at 
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

It looks like, ultimately, btrfs is the file system that we'll all be using.

So ... I'm wondering if anyone else out there is trying it out.  In 
10.04, you can download btrfs-tools and create btrfs file systems.

I still haven't figured out how to resize a subvolume and some of the 
other stuff.

Keep in mind that it's still labeled as "experimental", so don't trust 
your important data with it just yet.  I have my btrfs file system 
created on a 32G thumbdrive.

Regards,
Charlie Brune
St. Louis, Missouri USA




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