Modernize your Linux Storage with btrfs!

When it comes to filesystems, btrfs is definitely a bird of another color! In this video, Jay from Learn Linux TV will break down some of the finer-points of this modern filesystem, which will include topics such as how it differs from other technologies, how to take snapshots, creating a btrfs volume of your own, and more!

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*⏰ TIME CODES*
00:00 - Intro
02:30 - Overview of btrfs, and some of its history (presentation)
05:34 - Pros and cons of btrfs (presentation)
11:54 - My thoughts on the stability of btrfs
13:27 - Overview of the btrfs implementation in Fedora 36
21:08 - How do partitions differ from btrfs subvolumes?
23:56 - Using the btrfs usespace utility to check filesystem usage
25:42 - How quotas can (hypothetically) privide a subvolume size boundary
27:46 - Demonstration of snapshots in btrfs
34:40 - Walkthrough: anually building your own btrfs implementation
39:58 - Walkthrough: Creating a btrfs subvolume
41:46 - How to (correctly) check the free space of a btrfs volume
42:17 - Another demonstration of btrfs snapshots

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[duser]

Please do make more videos on btrfs! especially on things like snapper, best practices, tricks with the file system that may be useful.

[paulthompson]

As usual, a very well researched and well-presented video from you. Good balanced overview of BTRFS, with the pros and cons, and where to looks for updates on that. It is great that a modern file system is being actively developed, and glad you highlighted it. Thanks Jay.

[daveymac]

Bro, I’m a little high right now so my sense of time is a little warped and it makes me pay much closer attention to your voice tones, and let me tell you… you have gotten a shit load better my brother.
Much props on the high quality effort on the script and prep work you did.
You really took the time to explain nuance.
I have bookmarked this to rewatch while not high lol

[toast]

I can't believe you released a video about btrfs at the exact moment I wanted to know more about it!

[superspectator]

Great video! Thank you! And yes, I would like to see more advanced concepts of btrfs in future videos.

[HaroldPearson]

Thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thanks for making content like this, Jay. I would love to see more content on the advanced features of btrfs.

[act..]

I am all for more BTRFS videos. I have been learning a lot from your channel. Thank you sir.

[smoetje]

My Synology is using BTRFS for about 4 years now in a SHR raid. Its working like a charm and even disk replacement and raid rebuild, went flawless. Stable, stellar performance and deduplication is an awesome feature.

[pierrecassidy]

I'd certainly love to see more btrfs content. Thanks for all the great work!

[mlongval]

Excellent video Jay. Thank you very much. I have looked at BTRFS for a while, but never dove into it. Going to try it in a VM tonight. Please more videos on the subject. Also have you done videos on "backup best practices?" I would very much enjoy watching that. Thanks and Cheers from Canada!

[Staniola]

Great content as always!
Huge thank you 🙏

[xellaz]

Great video! I'm always interested in filesystems and ways how to manage it. It would be awesome to have a video on what are the optimal ways of managing a btrfs filesystems checking for errors, repairing, etc. I have btrfs on my main Linux machine and also on my NAS. I'm always on the lookout for best practices on how to secure my data.. especially when it comes to the filesystems I'm using which is btrfs. 😅

[TheRealFaceyNeck]

This video helped me understand BTRFS better. Great work!
...also Snapper is great. I set it up following a different YouTube video.
It's awesome for people who want snapshots to be automated. It's in the RPM repos. (I'm also using Fedora.)

[andreadiaz]

This is really great and very helpful. Thank you for sharing.

[joseffistus]

A really good video about btrfs.
btrfs is a great FS. I use it since 2012. Never had any problems with btrfs. N8ever used Raid5/6 - only the so called "RAID1". Maybe that is why I never run into any problems...) One of the best features is to do read only snapshots of our home directory and use them for making backups via send / receive to another btrfs device. (It took me some time to understand the construct of send / receive - but finally it works :)

[ericfielding]

Thanks - I learned a bunch
We have BTRFS running on a Synology NAS but EXT3 / EXT4 / ZFS everywhere else.
It was good to hear a bit on how BTRFS works.

[tota_trader]

Very well presented. Thanks for your hard work.

[J.A.]

Great video! I really like to see more videos about btrfs.

[macedoplinio]

The best tutorial I have ever seem!! Congratulations!!!!

[LucS]

It's only really RAID 5/6 (stripping) that is not completely stable with BTRFS. Actually, it's implementation of RAID1 is one of the best things about BTRFS for desktop computers in my opinion. Having installed an OS on two disks using RAID0, I was able to on-the-fly, without rebooting, in a matter of seconds, switch to RAID1. Something even the mighty zfs can't do for now (changing vdev structure).