Ntfs2btrfs is a tool which does in-place conversion of Microsoft’s NTFS filesystem to the open-source filesystem Btrfs, much as
btrfs-convertdoes for ext2. The original image is saved as a reflink copy atimage/ntfs.img, and if you want to keep the conversion you can delete this to free up space.
Neat tool, but probably with a rather limited application.
The related project “winbtrfs” seems to be more interesting:
https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
They have built a native Windows driver for the BTRFS file system. My only reservation is that, it does not share code with the original Linux implementation. That means, new bugs, less people working on it, and possible divergence in the future.
But, still, a pretty impressive achievement.
ReactOS can also boot from that one…
Nice!
Have to admit: I always keep ReactOS as an afterthought. Something along the lines of: it is really great that we have it, but I don’t use it on my desktop.
Btw, I noticed the new accessory on the site logo 🙂
Well done!
NTFS to ZFS would be interesting. This, not so much.
Well, I certainly could’ve used it this weekend.
Finally an experimental tool that I can use to convert my backup disks from NTFS to BTRFS.
sj87,
I’m not sure if this was meant as a joke, but it made me laugh 🙂
“Neat tool, but probably with a rather limited application.”
I’ve been testing WinBtrfs on one of my archive HDDs for the past week or so, it’s actually faster than NTFS. on copying from my SSD to the btrfs HDD, it moves data at roughly double what the same drive could with NTFS. I’m not sure if the compression is any better or worse, yet, though. and I don’t use encryption, so I couldn’t tell you about encrypted performance.