A little background: I'm pretty much a Linux newb. I've been trying out various distros on various machines trying to find something that works well for me. So far, not much success. I've been ...

The btrfsck command is a filesystem-check command like fsck, but it works with the btrfs file system. First a little bit about btrfs. As the name implies, btrfs uses a B-tree data structure that is ...

Thanks guys. For this particular use case, I really have to go with btrfs, because zfs is unfortunately not flexible enough. AFAIK it's the only file system that supports reflinks. xfs may get it soon ...

Filesystems, like file cabinets or drawers, control how your operating system stores data. They also hold metadata like filetypes, what is attached to data, and who has access to that data. For ...

AlmaLinux 10.1 is out now, bringing with it the Btrfs filesystem as an optional choice during installation. Btrfs is good for those who want modern filesystem features. The community Linux ...

If you need to add new drives to your btrfs-powered Linux data center servers, Jack Wallen is here to show you how. Stargate Norway: OpenAI’s First AI Data Center in Europe AI Data Centers’ Soaring ...

The latest version of the Fedora Linux distribution is almost ready to go, and you can take Fedora 33 Beta for a spin starting today. Among other things, the latest version of Fedora for workstations ...

Recent kernel development efforts are helping address that problem by improving metadata handling, reducing lock contention, ...

Recently, we reported that F2FS, Btrfs, and EXT4, were getting significant performance improvements on Linux. Following that, Linux's NTFS driver is also getting some optimizations. A couple of days ...

OpenSUSE 13.2 was released a week ago. As with the recent Fedora update, the latest release of openSUSE took a year to develop instead of the standard six months as the organization retooled its ...

BOSTON - At the Linux Foundation's new Vault show, it's all about file systems and storage. You might think that there's nothing new to say about either topic, but you'd be wrong. To deal with this, ...