An Introduction to Btrfs

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Btrfs is a general-purpose file system that provides additional capabilities and increased flexibility as compared with other Linux file systems. Beyond file-system management, Btrfs incorporates volume-management features found in Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and software RAID features like mdadm, as well as new features, into a unified tool set.

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