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Get to Know Btrfs

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Carla Schroder
Jan 8, 2012

“The Butter/Better/B-tree Filesystem, Btrfs, is supposedly
destined to become the default Linux filesystem. What makes it
special, and what’s wrong with good old tried-and-true
Ext2/3/4?

Linux supports a gigantic number of filesystems: removable
media, network, cluster, cloud, journaling, virtual machine,
compressed, embedded, hardware inter-connect, pseudo-filesystems
that live only in memory, Mac and Windows filesystems, and many
more.


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