Why “Btrfs” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
I started on a bad foot when you messaged me, and here's why it rubbed me wrong: it seemed like btrfs snapshots would give you 98% of the wins just as easily. With far better re…
by jauntywundrkind · Oct 22, 2026
For the source code part of that, the difference between using layerfs and btrfs snapshots feels near trivial. There'd be so little difference at the source layer. Unless your c…
by jauntywundrkind · Oct 21, 2026
Nice benchmarks, impressive numbers. 20x less space than btrfs for the deep seek harness. They even have some explanations. Files writes in btrfs snapshots recreatethe contents…
by jauntywundrkind · Oct 21, 2026
I would not trust btrfs with anything mission critical.
by ryan-c · Oct 21, 2026
zstd is pretty good, but not so much better than the alternatives to justify any of Meta's harms. I like btrfs because it makes my backups simpler and faster, but I don't need i…
by NoGravitas · Oct 20, 2026
Ironically with sloppy code we will be back to 2001 with non-concurrent OSS and shitty sound daemons as esd/arts, now merged into pipewire but with crappy patches around. M…
by anthk · Oct 20, 2026
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Btrfs is a computer storage format that combines a file system based on the copy-on-write (COW) principle with a logical volume manager, developed together. It was created by Chris Mason in 2007 for use in Linux, and since November 2013, the file system's on-disk format has been declared stable in the Linux kernel. Read more on Wikipedia