Submission + - Oracle Introduces Btrfs Filesystem for Linux (techsww.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Oracle recently introduced a new Checksumming Copy on Write Filesystem named Btrfs. According to Brtfs's home page,
"Linux has a wealth of filesystems to choose from, but we are facing a number of challenges with scaling to the large storage subsystems that are becoming common in today's data centers. Filesystems need to scale in their ability to address and manage large storage, and also in their ability to detect, repair and tolerate errors in the data stored on disk."
Btrfs is released under a GPL license and is currently under heavy development. Btrfs is not suitable for any uses other than benchmarking and review but this is certainly something we should look forward to in the future.
"Linux has a wealth of filesystems to choose from, but we are facing a number of challenges with scaling to the large storage subsystems that are becoming common in today's data centers. Filesystems need to scale in their ability to address and manage large storage, and also in their ability to detect, repair and tolerate errors in the data stored on disk."
Btrfs is released under a GPL license and is currently under heavy development. Btrfs is not suitable for any uses other than benchmarking and review but this is certainly something we should look forward to in the future.
