A Short History of Btrfs · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 31, 2009 @09:13PM from the new-and-shiny dept.

diegocgteleline.es writes "Valerie Aurora, a Linux file system developer and ex-ZFS designer, has posted an article with great insight on how Btrfs, the file system that will replace Ext4, was created and how it works. Quoting: 'When it comes to file systems, it's hard to tell truth from rumor from vile slander: the code is so complex, the personalities are so exaggerated, and the users are so angry when they lose their data. You can't even settle things with a battle of the benchmarks: file system workloads vary so wildly that you can make a plausible argument for why any benchmark is either totally irrelevant or crucially important. ... we'll take a behind-the-scenes look at the design and development of Btrfs on many levels — technical, political, personal — and trace it from its origins at a workshop to its current position as Linus's root file system.'"

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Re:So, by borizz · 2009-07-31 22:00 · Score: 4, Insightful

Snapshots are nice too. Makes stuff like Time Machine and derivatives much more elegant. ZFS has built in RAID support (which, I assume, works on the block level, instead of on the disk level), maybe Btrfs will get this too.