On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:50:59 -0600 Gustin Johnson <gus...@meganerd.ca> wrote:
> Increasingly I am moving my large data (primarily VM and disk > images) around with btrfs, since I can can create instant copy > on write snapshots, and very efficiently transfer all of that > over a network. See the following ARS article for a pretty > good explanation: > http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/bitrot-and-atomic-cows-inside-next-gen-filesystems/ That article looks interesting. I didn't know about bitrot. What can be done to avoid it? I think I will wait on btrfs until it is mainstream for a home computer. I hear about snapshots and images in backups. What would be the differences in these from copying files to another drive? Thanks _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
