This is the fourth post in the series about the btrfs filesystem. In the first post on this subject I discussed btrfs basics, showing how to create simple btrfs filesystems. In the second post, more ...

Linux is a powerful platform, but anyone who has used it long enough knows how fragile things can feel after a bad update, a misconfigured package, or an experiment gone wrong. Traditional backups can ...

If you own a Synology network-attached storage device (NAS) and want to protect your valuable data from ransomware attacks, you might be interested in a new video published by SpaceRex. The video ...

$ btrfs subvolume create foo Create subvolume './foo' $ btrfs subvolume snapshot foo bar Create a snapshot of 'foo' in './bar' $ btrfs subvolume snapshot foo bar Create a snapshot of 'foo' in 'bar/foo ...

Btrfs is a new file system for Linux, one that is still very much in development. Although I wouldn't exactly describe it as "experimental" any more, it is, as stated in the Wiki at kernel.org, "a ...

What if the very foundation of your data storage could make or break your system’s performance and reliability? Choosing the right file system isn’t just a technical decision, it’s a pivotal choice ...