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A Windows driver implementation of btrfs, so you can use it from a windows system.
I believe it is still (highly?) experimental so do not use it for sensitive and important files, in fact best use it on a test system with disposables drives first.
But I have seen some people use it to have e.g. windows and steamos have access to the same btrfs drive for games so they don't have to duplicate the 100+GB game files for switching systems, quite clever.
Good explanation of the Arch - btrfs snapshot interaction, as well as pacman snaps with snap-pac and snapper rollbacks.
Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even actual Time Machine backups!)
Very cool, allows listing, filtering and browsing through backed-up individual files on the commandlien.
Uses chroot to pretend for restic that the latest snapshot is actually the whole filesystem.
Restic can then create its backup snapshot in peace while the live file system can change without any conflicts.
All orchestrated by systemd timer and service unit.
Sounds pretty neat! Could perhaps learn something for my own backup solution.
A really nice overview and somewhat in-depth explanation of setting up a nice backup system with restic and systemd. Written exclusively for btrfs I am not sure why, since most of the instructions should work with most any underlying filesystem.
For the error '202803 – Hibernation does not work with BTRFS and swapfile on 5.0 kernel. Cannot find swap device.'
- btrfs physical_location is different from normal filefrag physical address.
- There is a tool to get the physical address of the swapfile in the comments
The full process is described here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate#Hibernation_into_swap_file_on_Btrfs
Remember to divide by pagesize!
Another explanation of installing arch with BTRFS and encryption - this time with encrypted boot partition and grub bootloader.
An exhaustive writeup of installing an encrypted BTRFS arch on SSD on the arch wiki.
Encrypted laptop with Btrfs and no LVM
Completely walkthrough operations manual -- with various considerations along the way.