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The new Linux File System: btrfs

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Linux operating system has always been-probably-minimized. The virtues of Linux over other operating systems are clear. On the one hand, it's all free and development has matured to interesting proportions. It is curious that over the years people continue developing this OS, because in principle not seen money for these developments, but it is clear that between donations and satisfaction of work well done, Linux distribution it enjoys a good name.
Therefore, Linux developers do not stop and have decided to replace the current system of files using, ext3 , FPct Btrfs (B-tree FS, usually pronounced "butter FS"). The main problem with ext3 is the limitation on the size of the files, in addition to adopting new technologies not supported by the same. It is claimed that part of the project will focus on fault tolerance, repair and easy administration. The file system "copy-on-write" was announced by Oracle for GNU / Linux.
In the early months of 2009, Btrfs was developed intesivamente but only became available for evaluation. Version 0.19 was released in June of the same 2009 as free software under the GPL. Version 2.6.29 of the Linux kernel (the kernel, then), and supports, at least experimentally, this file system.
The main features of it are:
Space efficient packaging of small files and directories indexed
Dynamic allocation of i-nodes (not set a maximum number of files to create the file system)
Snapshots and snapshots writable snapshots
Subvolumes (roots separate internal filesystem)
Mirroring and Stripping at the object level
Checking data and metadata (high safety integrity)
Compression
Copy-on-write the record of all the data and metadata
Great integration with device-mapper to support multiple devices with multiple RAID algorithms including
Checking file system without dismantling and very quick checking unmounted file system
Efficient incremental backups and file system mirroring
Upgrading from ext3 to Btrfs, and conversion to ext3 when updating
SSD optimized mode (activated via a mount option)
Defragmentation without dismantling
So, perhaps this new file system Linux soon join. This started in 2009 and we are four years into this "adventure" software. Hopefully soon we can see it now as the new file system that will undoubtedly make Linux an even more efficient.

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