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Kish
Mar 22, 2013Aspirant
Questions about OS 6
After reading up on Btrfs, I also do NOT understand the logic in not allowing current ARM and x86 Series owners to upgrade to OS 6. Since Btrfs can do “In-place ext3/4 conversion” (see: https://en.wi...
mdgm-ntgr
Mar 26, 2013NETGEAR Employee Retired
Yes MD devices are used.
On balance NetGear decided BTRFS in its current state is a better filesystem than EXT4 and that now is the time to switch. No filesystem is perfect.
As well as supporting unlimited snapshots BTRFS has a range of other features. It also doesn't have the expansion limitations that EXT4 in RAIDiator-x86 4.2.x has.
On balance NetGear decided BTRFS in its current state is a better filesystem than EXT4 and that now is the time to switch. No filesystem is perfect.
As well as supporting unlimited snapshots BTRFS has a range of other features. It also doesn't have the expansion limitations that EXT4 in RAIDiator-x86 4.2.x has.
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