Btrfs 0.12, Performance Improvements Feb 7, 2008, 18 :15 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (3720 reads)
"'I wasn't planning on releasing v0.12 yet, and it was supposed to have some initial support for multiple devices. But, I have made a number of performance fixes and small bug fixes, and I wanted to get them out there before the (destabilizing) work on multiple-devices took over,' explained Chris Mason regarding the 0.12 release of his new btrfs filesytem. Btrfs was first announced in June of 2007, as an alpha-quality filesystem offering checksumming of all files and metadata, extent based file storage, efficient packing of small files, dynamic inode allocation, writable snapshots, object level mirroring and striping, and fast offline filesystem checks, among other features..."
