Fedora 16 To Use Btrfs Filesystem By Default | Linux Today

Fedora 16 To Use Btrfs Filesystem By Default

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 11, 2011

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“Btrfs is a new copy-on-write file system for Linux that
supports a number of features lacking in other Linux file systems
such as pooling, snapshot, checksum and integral multiple device
spanning.

“So, far the most popular filesystem in use for a majority of
the Linux distributions is EXT4. Using Btrfs as the default will
open up a number of new features such as better data integrity
through checksum, snapshot of the filesystem before any major
change, better volume management and RAID.”

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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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