The Minority Report

I pay attention to anything written by Valerie Aurora, who is not only hot, but a world class Linux filesystem developer.

She’s put together “A short history of btrfs” the Linux file system that Linus Torvalds is using on one of his laptops. Check it out:

In this article, we’ll take a behind-the-scenes look at the design and development of btrfs on many levels – technical, political, personal – and trace it from its origins at a workshop to its current position as Linus’s root file system. Knowing the background and motivation for each step will help you understand why btrfs was started, how it works, and where it’s going in the future. By the end, you should be able to hand-wave your way through a description of btrfs’s on-disk format.
A short history of btrfs [LWN.net]