Fedora 17 Is Still Trying For Btrfs By Default | Linux Today

Fedora 17 Is Still Trying For Btrfs By Default

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 8, 2012

Btrfs support in Fedora has been interesting going all the way
back to the Fedora 13 release where it gained support for Linux
system roll-backs by taking advantage of the Btrfs copy-on-write
snapshots within Yum.

Btrfs was supposed to become the default file-system in Fedora
16 but in the end the switch was postponed since a proper fsck
utility for Btrfs was not ready, among other blocking bugs.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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