The most common option is Ext4, which is used as default in many desktop Linux distributions. But, after Fedora took the plunge to use Btrfs as its default file system, many desktop Linux users switched to Btrfs. If you are one of them who want to switch to Btrfs, let me help you by...
Fourth Extended Filesystem(ext4):This is the default and the most widely used filesystem in many Linux distributions. X Filesystem(XFS):This file system is commonly used in enterprises. Its most prominent features are its scalability and performance. B-Tree Filesystem(Btrfs):This is the latest...
Btrfs is a copy-on-write B-tree file system with enhanced performance, fault tolerance, data repair, and administration features. It was created at Oracle in 2007 for Linux.Btrfs featuresBtrfs is similar to ZFS in that it is a copy-on-write file system. Duplicated (copied) data is not ...
btrfs swap Ext: “ext” is an acronym that stands for “extended file system” and was created in 1992 and is the very first file system designed specifically for Linux. Its functionality was designed partly based on the UNIX file system. The purpose of its creation originally was to innovat...
Btrfsin Kernel 6.8introducesthenospace_cachemount flag to disable the free block cache. This, combined with functions utilizing page folios, enhances Btrfs’s flexibility and responsiveness. The Extendable Read-Only File System (EROFS)gainssubpage compression support in Kernel 6.8, tailored for read-...
Linux Kernel 6.7 delivers a feature they specifically requested:temporary file-system IDs (FSIDs). This allows mounting the same Btrfs image on multiple devices without conflicts, which is ideal for the Deck’s A/B update system. Btrfs 6.7 doesn’t stop there. It also brings several performanc...
GRUB 2. This GRUB version supports new PC architectures (such asARM) andfilesystems(such asReiserFS),RAIDenvironments, and LVM. Most of the current distributions use GRUB 2. For example, below is the GRUB menu found in Linux Mint:
In this post, we have looked at what bit rot is and how to detect it withdm-integrity. File systems like Btrfs and ZFS also aim at dealing with bit rot, but are, for various reasons, not available in RHEL. The checksumming done bydm-integrityleads to more I/O to the underlying blo...
[ Keep your most commonly used commands handy with theLinux commands cheat sheet. ] File removal Different interactions occur when you delete a file, mainly depending on the filesystem (EXT4, XFS, BtrFS, and so on) the system uses. Without dwelling on filesystem specifics, it's always poss...
7. btrfs btrfs (B-tree file system) is a newer file system designed to address the needs of modern storage systems. It's been described as the "next generation file system" for Linux, and it includes several advanced features not found in ext4 (which might make you wonderwhether to use...