Welcome to BTRFS documentation!

Overview

• Introduction
• Status
• Manual pages
• Administration
• Hardware considerations
• Changes (feature/version)
• Changes (kernel/version)
• Changes (btrfs-progs)
• Contributors
• Glossary
• Installation instructions
• Source repositories

Features:

• Common Linux features
• Custom ioctls
• Auto-repair on read
• Balance
• Compression
• Checksumming
• Convert
• Deduplication
• Defragmentation
• Inline files
• Quota groups
• Reflink
• Resize
• Scrub
• Seeding device
• Send/receive
• Subpage support
• Subvolumes
• Swapfile
• Tree checker
• Trim/discard
• Volume management
• Zoned mode

Developer documentation

• Development notes
• Developer’s FAQ
• Experimental features
• Btrfs design
• Btrees
• On-disk Format
• Send stream format
• JSON output
• Internal APIs
• Release checklist
• btrfs-ioctl(2)

TODO

• Quick start
• Interoperability
• Troubleshooting pages
• Conventions and style for documentation