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Btrfs Brings Experimental Remap-Tree Feature & More In Linux 7.0 (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

How is BTRFS these days? I've been using XFS for so long just because of my soft spot for IRIX.

Edit: Thanks for the replies. I'll find an unused box and check it out.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    I use it because it has native compressio and also an entire incremental backup tool built in (btrfs send/receive can throw snapshots of a filesystem across networks)

    Although my actual daily driver is FreeBSD with ZFS

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    I'm daily driving it on my main desktop and several laptops with full disk encryption and zero issues, although I am not a power user of some of the complex functions btrfs offers, I just slap it on a whole disk and dump all my files into one big partition and that's pretty much good enough for me. I should try subvolumes at some point I guess, IDK.

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    • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Whoah.

    Please correct me if I'm wrong but this can streamline incremental backups from filesystem level snapshots of a live system no?

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    [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    With remap-tree, a translation layer of logical block addresses allows changes without moving/rewriting blocks for handling relocation or other changes requiring copy-on-write.

    I've read this several times and still can't really imagine what it is and why I might need it.

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