Translations:Btrfs/5/en


 * Copy on Write (CoW) and snapshotting - Make incremental backups painless even from a "hot" filesystem or virtual machine (VM).
 * File level checksums - Metadata for each file includes a checksum that is used to detect and repair errors.
 * Compression - Files may be compressed and decompressed on the fly, which speeds up read performance.
 * Auto defragmentation - The filesystems are tuned by a background thread while they are in use.
 * Subvolumes - Filesystems can share a single pool of space instead of being put into their own partitions.
 * RAID - Btrfs does its own RAID implementations so LVM or are not required in to have RAID. Currently RAID 0 and 1 are supported; RAID 5 and 6 are upcoming.
 * Partitions are optional - While Btrfs can work with partitions, it has the potential to use raw devices directly.
 * Data deduplication - There is limited data deduplication support; however, deduplication will eventually become a standard feature in Btrfs. This enables Btrfs to save space by comparing files via binary diffs.