Fedora Project Podcast

14: Copy That: Fedora's Embrace of the BtrFS Copy-on-Write Filesystem



June 22nd, 2021  •  26 mins 24 secs  •  Download (36.3 MB)  •  Link with Timestamp

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Chris Murphy, a developer involved with Fedora, provides an overview of Butter FS - a new default file system for Fedora that offers copy-on-write capabilities, data integrity checking, snapshots, flexible storage configs and more. Chris compares Butter FS to ext4, explaining the copy-on-write model, data integrity benefits over traditional overwrites, and capabilities like online shrinking.