A Beginner's Guide To btrfs This guide shows how to work with the btrfs file system on Linux. It covers creating and mounting btrfs file systems, resizing btrfs file systems online, adding and removing devices, changing RAID levels, creating subvolumes and snapshots, using compression and other things. btrfs is still marked as experimental, but all those features make it a very interesting and flexible file system that should be taken into consideration when you look for the right file system. in Public bookmarkswith btrfsfilelinuxraidresizingsnapshotssystemubuntu
Boot On BTRFS With Debian This tutorial will explain you how to boot from a BTRFS filesystem with kernel 2.6.31-RC4 and BTRFS 0.19. BTRFS is a new filesystem with some really interesting features like online defragmenting and snapshots. BTRFS is an experimental filesystem, use at your own risk. The kernel used is also experimental. in Public bookmarkswith bootbtrfsdebianfilesystem
Rollback To A Working State With btrfs + apt-btrfs-snapshot On Ubuntu 12.10 This tutorial explains how you can revert failed apt operations (like apt-get upgrade) and roll back to the previous system state with apt-btrfs-snapshot on an Ubuntu 12.10 system that uses the btrfs file system. apt-btrfs-snapshot creates a snapshot of the system before the apt operation. Being able to easily restore the previous system state after a failed apt operation takes away much of the pain system administrators have to deal with normally and is one of the greatest features of the btrfs file system. in Public bookmarkswith aptapt-btrfs-snapshotbtrfsrollbacksnapshotubuntu
Using The btrfs Filesystem (With RAID1) With Ubuntu 12.10 On A Hetzner Server This tutorial shows how to install Ubuntu 12.10 on the btrfs filesystem (with RAID1) on a Hetzner server with two hard drives. While Hetzner's installimage tool doesn't list btrfs as a supported filesystem and only supports software RAID with /dev/md devices, it is still possible to achieve this setup and use the built-in RAID support in btrfs instead of using /dev/md devices. in Public bookmarkswith btrfshetznerinstallimageraidubuntu