Experimental RAID 5 and 6 support in Btrfs

Chris Mason has released experimental Btrfs extensions which enable the file system to natively support RAID 5 and 6 in addition to the existing RAID 0 and 1 support. Mason is lead developer of the file system, which has long been included in the Linux kernel but is still marked as experimental. In an announcement [...]

Btrfs brings “Pretty Beefy” changes in Linux 3.2

Linux kernel 3.2 will be out early next year, and included will be some exciting changes for the btrfs file system: “Among the noteworthy changes to Btrfs in Linux 3.2 compared to Linux 3.1 are many clean-ups and optimizations, scrubber improvements (including performance improvements), error handling fixes, and improved recovery support. There were also some [...]