Valerie Aurora has published a great article in LWN about btrfs: "You probably have heard of the cool new kid on the file system block - after all, Linus Torvalds is using it as his root file system on one of his laptops. But you might not know much about it beyond a few high-level keywords - copy-on-write, checksums, writable snapshots - and a few sensational rumors and stories - the Phoronix benchmarks, btrfs is a ZFS ripoff, btrfs is a secret plan for Oracle domination of Linux, etc. When it comes to file systems, it's hard to tell truth from rumor from vile slander. In this article, we'll take a behind-the-scenes look at the design and development of btrfs on many levels."
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Member since:2006-05-10
Member since:2005-07-11
BetterFS (or ButterFS - lol) is a terrible name for the OS.
It's like adding "new" to something. At some point something comes along that is newer. At some point something will come along that is "better"...
Better is a relative term. I would just have to come out with BestOS :-)
I think LG's "Life's Good" catch phrase has similar problems. I'd love someone to come out with "Life's Great".
Oh, I don't have any better suggestions though...
Member since:2006-02-15
BetterFS (or ButterFS - lol) is a terrible name for the OS.
It is not an OS... It is a filesystem.
For a filesystem BtrFS is perfectly suitable; no Joe User will care what filesystem they use or what's its name, and system admins and geeks actually understand the idea behind that name..
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2006-01-04
I am really looking forward to BtrFS. I should enable Time Sliders in Nautilus/Dolphin and other cool stuff. Snapshots could be used by the package management. I would also love to have compression.
PS.
I really hope that it will be renamed BetterFS once it is stable.