Linux Don't Need No Stinkin' ZFS: BTRFS Intro & Benchmarks
ZFS may be locked into the Solaris operating system but “Butter FS” is on the horizon and it’s boasting more features and better performance.
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Linux is a fun project to watch because you get to see this living and breathing piece of software change and evolve.
Recently, Linux has been undergoing something of a revolution with a respect to file systems. There are a number of projects including ext4 (See ext4 File System: Introduction and Benchmarks), squashfs, nilfs which have made it into the kernel, and tux3, which hasn’t made it into the kernel yet but is under heavy development.
And perhaps most importantly, btrfs. Btrfs holds the promise of giving Linux many enterprise class file system features similar to ZFS (See Solving Common Administration Problems with ZFS and ZFS on FUSE) but with even more features and better performance. In fact, many Linux experts think that btrfs is one of the keys to the future of Linux. While btrfs is not…
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