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ZFS, btrfs, and copy-on-write b-trees

• moe 17y ago
  This is one of the rare diamonds. Highly recommended for anyone remotely interested in filesystems.
• wglb 17y ago
  Excellent article. Interesting how these things progress by getting complex, then a simplifying design is found that makes the architecture simpler, or at least with fewer "moving parts".
• mark_h 17y ago
  Valerie has written a number of file-system articles for LWN, all of similar quality. (and LWN is really worth supporting)
• 321abc 17y ago
  This article has just been slashdotted: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/08/01/0211232/A-Short-History-of-Btrfs http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/08/01/0211232/A-Short-...