We received a request from Canonical to look at the EXT3 performance. We have done just that.
Read more »EXT3, EXT4, Btrfs Ubuntu Netbook Benchmarks
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Fedora 13 May Support Btrfs System Rollbacks
One of the features though that has just been proposed for Fedora 13 is rather interesting and that is system rollback support via Btrfs file-system snapshots.
Read more »What's missing in Btrfs
So, after being completely betrayed[1] by Ext4 not once, but twice, I decided to evaluate my FS options for /home.
Read more »Boot On BTRFS With Debian
This tutorial will explain you how to boot from a BTRFS filesystem with kernel 2.6.31-RC4 and BTRFS 0.19. BTRFS is a new filesystem with some really interesting features like online defragmenting and snapshots. BTRFS is an experimental filesystem, use at your own risk. The kernel used is also experimental.
Read more »The Btrfs file system
Btrfs, the designated "next generation file system" for Linux, offers a range of features that are not available in other Linux file systems – and it's nearly ready for production use.
Read more »EXT4, Btrfs, NILFS2 Performance Benchmarks
The past few Linux kernel releases have brought a number of new file-systems to the Linux world. Being the benchmarking junkies that we are, we have set out to compare the file-system performance of EXT4, Btrfs, and NILFS2 under Ubuntu using the Linux 2.6.30 kernel.
Read more »A Conversation with Chris Mason on BTRfs
If you run your data center on Linux you have likely heard of BTRfs, the next generation file system that was recently merged into the kernel. I recently sat down with Oracle developer Chris Mason to discuss the file system, how he corrupted Linus’ root filesystem with his first patch (and lived to tell about it).
Read more »Testing Out The SSD Mode In Btrfs
One month ago we provided benchmarks of the Btrfs file-system and found that while it contained many features to make it a next-generation Linux file-system, its disk performance was rather displeasing. In Btrfs there the solid-state drive mode can be enabled.
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