Features of Btrfs

Some of the features of Btrfs are:

• Snapshots
• Self-healing
• Dynamic inode allocation
• Extent-based file storage
• Deduplication
• Provides online defragmentation, volume growth, and shrinking.
• Supports file cloning.
• It has the ability to handle swap files and swap partitions.

Note: Btrfs stands for B-tree file system

Btrfs was a project which was started back in 2007, it is a part of the Linux kernel. It is a copy-on-write filesystem that uses advanced features. It is highly scalable, and easy to maintain and repair. Since 2013 this file system is considered stable in the Linux kernel. The core and the most vital structure of btrfs was proposed by a researcher at IBM. Btrfs essentially focuses on catering to the needs which require high performance and large storage. It has a variety of features which are given below.