COW and volume management?
COW and volume management?
Posted Jan 26, 2026 8:50 UTC (Mon) by jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876)In reply to: COW and volume management? by marcH
Parent article: Filesystem medley: EROFS, NTFS, and XFS
Btrfs is getting better but not everybody trusts it yet.
A file system which is already excellent but massively controversial for non-technical reasons is bcachefs.
It is great but the dev got it kicked out of the kernel. So you have to build it in yourself or using DKMS.
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