Chris Murphy
Special guest
Senior Systems Administrator passionate about the ideologies and technologies of Open Source and DevOps with the approach of using the many technology hats I've worn to evangelize both. I thrive in an environment where rapidly adjusting to solve complex problems, in either a group or flying solo, is a daily norm..
Chris Murphy has been a guest on 2 episodes.
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15: Butter Up: Exploring Fedora's Transparent Compression
July 6th, 2021 | 28 mins 40 secs
btrfs, chris murphy, fedora, fedora 34, filesystem, linux, podcast
Chris Murphy, a developer working on BTRFS, explains the new transparent compression feature that will be enabled by default in Fedora 34 which automatically compresses files before writing to disk for space savings. He discusses the compression algorithm (zstd), performance impact, expected space savings, how to check compression stats, and the future roadmap for Butter FS features like snapshots/rollbacks.
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14: Copy That: Fedora's Embrace of the BtrFS Copy-on-Write Filesystem
June 22nd, 2021 | 26 mins 24 secs
btrfs, call for papers, chris murphy, fedora, fedora 34, filesystem, linux, podcast
Chris Murphy, a developer involved with Fedora, provides an overview of Butter FS - a new default file system for Fedora that offers copy-on-write capabilities, data integrity checking, snapshots, flexible storage configs and more. Chris compares Butter FS to ext4, explaining the copy-on-write model, data integrity benefits over traditional overwrites, and capabilities like online shrinking.