An honest assessment of running Btrfs in production — what it gets right with snapshots, send/receive, and transparent compression, where it's still dangerous with RAID5/6, and how to use its quotas and tooling without getting burned.
Filesystems
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Btrfs in Production: Snapshots, Send/Receive, Quotas, and the Pitfalls -
Parallel Filesystems Compared: Lustre vs BeeGFS vs GPFS vs Weka When NFS stops scaling you need a parallel filesystem — a comparison of Lustre, BeeGFS, GPFS, and Weka covering how each distributes data and metadata, their performance profiles, and the operational burden each one brings.
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XFS Tuning and Internals: Allocation Groups, Log Layout, and Real Workload Tuning What's actually happening underneath the Linux filesystem you've used by default for years — XFS allocation groups, the journal layout, and the tuning that matters for real workloads like large, full, write-heavy volumes.