The btrfs backup experiment | Anchor Web Hosting Blog

http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2013/04/the-btrfs-backup-experiment/ Today we’re talking about our experience with btrfs, the next-gen Linux filesystem. btrfs has been maturing rapidly over the last few years and offers many compelling features for modern systems, so we’ve been putting it through its paces on some of our backup servers. How does it stack up? Read on!

The btrfs backup experiment | Anchor Web Hosting Blog

http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2013/04/the-btrfs-backup-experiment/ Today we’re talking about our experience with btrfs, the next-gen Linux filesystem. btrfs has been maturing rapidly over the last few years and offers many compelling features for modern systems, so we’ve been putting it through its paces on some of our backup servers. How does it stack up? Read on!

[PDF] "1000 000 000 files: Scalability limits in Linux file systems" linuxcon2010, Ric Wheeler / Redhat

http://events.linuxfoundation.org/slides/2010/linuxcon2010_wheeler.pdf PDF slides that show what happens if you create a file system with one billion (10**9 ) files

btrfs Wiki

http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page BTRFS is a new ZFS-like linux file system, it is present in the recent kernels with “experimental” status.