ZFS was the natural choice for me, too, just like a lot of other users who take home servers seriously. It carries a ...

A little background: I'm pretty much a Linux newb. I've been trying out various distros on various machines trying to find something that works well for me. So far, not much success. I've been ...

I'm putting together a file server and planned on using an ext4 formatted SSD as the boot disk and a spare 2.5" hdd as a scratch disk for things that don't benefit from the speed of a SSD, with mostly ...

This is my final post in this series about the btrfs filesystem. The first in the series covered btrfs basics, the second was resizing, multiple volumes and devices, the third was RAID and Redundancy, ...

The btrfs filesystem has taunted the Linux community for years, offering a stunning array of features and capability, but never earning universal acclaim. Btrfs is perhaps more deserving of patience, ...

Filesystems, like file cabinets or drawers, control how your operating system stores data. They also hold metadata like filetypes, what is attached to data, and who has access to that data. For ...

File systems are one of those things that typical end users don’t think much about. Apparently, [seaQueue] isn’t a typical end user. He’s posted some instructions on how to run an alternate file ...

Almost every bit of data needed to boot and run a Linux system is stored in a filesystem. Learn more about some commonly used Linux filesystem types. Linux supports quite a few filesystem types. Your ...

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 ...