Btrfs/zh-cn

BTRFS is a file system based on the copy-on-write (COW) principle, initially designed at Oracle Corporation for use in Linux. The development of Btrfs began in 2007, and since August 2014 the file system's on-disk format has been marked as stable.

In 2015, Btrfs was adopted as the default filesystem for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12. SUSE reaffirmed its commitment to Btrfs in 2017 after RedHat announced to stop supporting Btrfs.

Btrfs 旨在解决 Linux 文件系统中缺乏文件池、快照、校验和以及集成多设备跨度的问题。

It is easy to set up and use BTRFS. In this simple introduction, we're going to set up BTRFS under Funtoo Linux using an existing debian-sources or debian-sources-lts kernel, like the one that comes pre-built for you with Funtoo Linux, and we will also be using our BTRFS storage pool for storing data that isn't part of the Funtoo Linux installation itself. Funtoo Linux will boot from a non-BTRFS filesystem, and as part of the initialization process will initialize our BTRFS storage and mount it at the location of our choice.

安装

安装 BTRFS 不需要任何额外的步骤，因为它是 Linux 内核的一部分（从 2.6.29 开始在主线 Linux 内核中）。让我们用 emerge 安装 BTRFS 用户空间工具 (btrfs-progs)。

root # emerge btrfs-progs

BTRFS 现在可以使用了。

BTRFS Concepts

BTRFS can be used to manage the physical disks that it uses, and physical disks are added to a BTRFS volume. Then, BTRFS can create subvolumes from the volume on which files can be stored.

Unlike traditional Linux filesystems, BTRFS filesystems will allocate storage on-demand from the underlying volume.

In the BTRFS world, the word volume corresponds to a storage pool (ZFS) or a volume group (LVM).

• devices - one or multiple underlying physical volumes.
• volume - one large storage pool comprised of all space of the devices and can support different redundancy levels
• subvolumes - these are what get mounted and you store files in.
• snapshots - a read-only copy of a subvolume at a given point in time and/or read-write copy of a subvolume in time (aka clone).

Creating a Volume

To create a basic BTRFS volume, you will need an extra empty disk. Perform the following steps:

root #  mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdxy
btrfs-progs v4.17.1 
See http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org for more information.

Detected a SSD, turning off metadata duplication.  Mkfs with -m dup if you want to force metadata duplication.
Performing full device TRIM /dev/sdj (223.57GiB) ...
Label:              (null)
UUID:               d6bcba6e-8fd5-41fc-9bb4-79628c5c928c
Node size:          16384
Sector size:        4096
Filesystem size:    223.57GiB
Block group profiles:
  Data:             single            8.00MiB
  Metadata:         single            8.00MiB
  System:           single            4.00MiB
SSD detected:       yes
Incompat features:  extref, skinny-metadata
Number of devices:  1
Devices:
   ID        SIZE  PATH
    1   223.57GiB  /dev/sdxy

/dev/sdxy should be an unused disk. You may need to use the following command if this disk contains any pre-existing data on it:

root #  mkfs.btrfs -f /dev/sdxy

Now you can mount the created volume as you would mount any other linux filesystem.

root #  mkdir /data
root #  mount /dev/sdxy /data
root #  mount
...
/dev/sdxy on /data type btrfs (rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=5,subvol=/)

To automatically mount this volume after reboot you need to add a simple fstab entry:

/dev/sdxy	/data	btrfs	defaults	0 0

You should now be at the point where you can begin to use BTRFS for a variety of tasks. While there is a lot more to BTRFS than what is covered in this short introduction, you should now have a good understanding of the fundamental concepts on which BTRFS is based.