Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 27th Jul 2007 22:32 UTC, submitted by liquidat
Oracle's TechCast crew interviewed [.mp3] Chris Mason on Btrfs. A kind-of transcript is available here. Btrfs is a new filesystem for Linux developed by Oracle. It features: "extent based file storage (264 max file size); space efficient packing of small files; space efficient indexed directories; dynamic inode allocation; writable snapshots; subvolumes (separate internal filesystem roots); object level mirroring and striping; checksums on data and metadata (multiple algorithms available); strong integration with device mapper for multiple device support; online filesystem check; very fast offline filesystem check; efficient incremental backup and FS mirroring."
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2005-07-13
"Oracle isn't a large enough backer? IBM isn't a large enough backer for JFS? SGI for XFS? (that might be a bad example)."
i should have been more clear. i am thrilled that oracle (a large company with money) is the backer