$ btrfs subvolume create foo Create subvolume './foo' $ btrfs subvolume snapshot foo bar Create a snapshot of 'foo' in './bar' $ btrfs subvolume snapshot foo bar Create a snapshot of 'foo' in 'bar/foo ...

This is the fourth post in the series about the btrfs filesystem. In the first post on this subject I discussed btrfs basics, showing how to create simple btrfs filesystems. In the second post, more ...

If you own a Synology network-attached storage device (NAS) and want to protect your valuable data from ransomware attacks, you might be interested in a new video published by SpaceRex. The video ...

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

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 ...

OpenSUSE 13.2 was released a week ago. As with the recent Fedora update, the latest release of openSUSE took a year to develop instead of the standard six months as the organization retooled its ...

There are few universal constants in this world, such as the speed of light or that time marches ever onwards. Another would be that there is always an ever-increasing need for additional data storage ...

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 ...

A powerful new filesystem for Linux already supports fast snapshots, checksums for all data, and online resizing–and plans to add ZFS-style built-in striping and mirroring. Chris Mason has recently ...

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 ...