Thursday, August 11, 2016

File System: btrfs

File System: btrfs

The btrfs (pronounced “butter-fs”) file system is a newer Linux file system that rep-resents an evolutionary leap in the way file systems organize and protect data. Btrfs is a type of “copy-on-write” file system that is very similar to the NSS file system found in Novell products as well as the Storage Space technology found in the latest versions of Windows.Using copy-on-write technology, btrfs provides several key new features not found in earlier file systems:


-Storage pools
-Snapshots

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