A Short History of Btrfs

diegocgteleline.es writes "Valerie Aurora, a Linux file system developer and ex-ZFS designer, has posted an article with great insight on how Btrfs, the file system that will replace Ext4, was created and how it works. Quoting: 'When it comes to file systems, it's hard to tell truth from rumor from vile slander: the code is so complex, the personalities are so exaggerated, and the users are so angry when they lose their data. You can't even settle things with a battle of the benchmarks: file system workloads vary so wildly that you can make a plausible argument for why any benchmark is either totally irrelevant or crucially important. ... we'll take a behind-the-scenes look at the design and development of Btrfs on many levels — technical, political, personal — and trace it from its origins at a workshop to its current position as Linus's root file system.'"

Re:oh wee sun's sloppy seconds.

[Anonymous Coward]

Will you also be enjoying your media in REAL PLAYER [real.com]?

Re:Linus', not Linus's.

[Anonymous Coward]

gor blimey guvnor you aint arf stereotypin us brits'.

Oh great

[teslatug]

As if fsck wasn't bad enough to use in business talks, now I have to get prepared for btrfsck

Re:Oh great

[Anonymous Coward]

I suddenly feel the urge to create a new fs called buttfs.

Re:oh wee sun's sloppy seconds.

[mrsteveman1]

Maybe someday you'll be a Real Boy [wikipedia.org]

Meh

[Dachannien]

Who cares? In a few years' time, this will be obsoleted by its successor, icantbelieveitsnotbtrfs.

Re:oh wee sun's sloppy seconds.

[Runaway1956]

Ahhh, but, it seems that you have assumed AC to be human. ;-)