btrfs filesystem

Btrfs has spent years living with a reputation that is equal parts innovation and caution: it is the Linux filesystem that promises copy-on-write flexibility, checksums, snapshots, and multi-device features, while also carrying the burden of every subtle accounting bug that can emerge when a...

The Linux kernel’s Btrfs filesystem has always lived at an interesting intersection of flexibility and fragility: it is a copy-on-write filesystem built for snapshots, checksumming, and online recovery, yet it must also behave sensibly when the filesystem is damaged, mounted read-only, or being...