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Supporting btrfs

Supporting btrfs

- The cutting edge of BTRFS is within your grasp. Join us. - [Announcer] You're watching ITProTV. (gentle upbeat music) (computer chimes) Hello, welcome back to L Pick two. So glad to have you with us. So glad to have you with us. Don, we're looking at BTRFS, bleeding edge, cutting edge file system, right? - That's right. BTRFS is one of the newer file systems. It has a ton of features, which makes it really powerful. But anytime there's a newer file system, it's a little bit risky. So a lot of people haven't tried it. In this episode, we want to introduce you to BTRFS, some of the things it can do, and I'll show you how easy it is to work with and get it deployed on Linux. - So why would I choose BTRFS over another file system? - Well, most of the file systems we work with are very mature, and by mature I just mean they've been around a long, long time, like the extended file system or EXT or the extents system that it has been around for over 30 years. And in that time, a lot of…

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