On February 15, version 6.13 of the btrfs-progs console utilities for working with the Btrfs file system in a user environment was released.
One significant change in this version is the addition of the --compress option to the mkfs.btrfs utility. This new option allows users to enable and configure the compression algorithm and level. It should be used in conjunction with the --rootdir argument to specify the directories to be compressed, for example: mkfs.btrfs --compress zlib:9 --rootdir Documentation img. The following compression algorithms are supported: zlib, lzo, zstd.
Key Changes:
- A --limit option has been added to the scrub utility to set a bandwidth limit during execution;
- An option has been added to disable squota;
- A minor optimization of the crc32c checksum calculation;
- Support for the long-deprecated --leafsize option has been removed;
- The minimum version of the Botan cryptography library has been raised to 3.x;
- Improvements and code refactoring.
The utilities are written in C and distributed under the GNU GPL 2 license.
Source: linux.org.ru
