SBD: We Have a Filesystem at Home(fly.io)
33 points by torutofu | 28 comments
Fly.io blog post introducing the Sprites Block Device (SBD), which replaces a modified JuiceFS setup with ext4 on an NBD block device backed by object storage.
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LayerFS: The filesystem for AI coding agents(layerfs.ai)
59 points by l2dy | 47 comments
Landing page for LayerFS, a filesystem giving AI coding agents ephemeral writable workspaces over shared committed history.
ZFS 2.3 released with ZFS raidz expansion(github.com)
343 points by scrp | 246 comments
GitHub release page for OpenZFS 2.3.0, announcing features including RAIDZ expansion and Fast Dedup.
Ntfs2btrfs does in-place conversion of NTFS filesystem to the open-source Btrfs(github.com)
381 points by Sami_Lehtinen | 156 comments
GitHub repository for ntfs2btrfs, a GPL-2.0 tool that converts an NTFS filesystem to Btrfs in place.
OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it(despairlabs.com)
421 points by type0 | 203 comments
Blog post by a Klara developer explaining OpenZFS 2.3.0's new Fast Dedup feature and why most users still shouldn't enable deduplication.
Booting Linux off of Google Drive(ersei.net)
396 points by jandeboevrie | 160 comments
A blog post describing how the author got Linux to boot with its root filesystem mounted from Google Drive via FUSE.
S3 is files, but not a filesystem(calpaterson.com)
535 points by todsacerdoti | 400 comments
Cal Paterson's essay on why Amazon S3 stores files but isn't a filesystem, discussing deep modules, mismatched interfaces, and why SAP is painful.
Visualizing Ext4(buredoranna.github.io)
320 points by giis | 26 comments
A blog post visualizing what a blank drive looks like at the byte level after running mkfs.ext4 to create an ext4 filesystem.
Windows on Btrfs(lilysthings.org)
456 points by susam | 206 comments
A personal blog post describing installing and booting Windows from a btrfs filesystem using the WinBtrfs driver and the open source Quibble bootloader.
The weird world of Windows file paths(fileside.app)
381 points by sharevari | 259 comments
A Fileside blog post explaining the many unusual formats and quirks of Windows file paths, such as drive letters, UNC paths, and device namespaces.