Btrfs is a copy-on-write filesystem that supports many advanced storage technologies, making it a good fit for Docker. Btrfs is included in the mainline Linux kernel. Docker’s btrfs storage driver leverages many Btrfs features for image and container management. Among these features are block-level operations, thin provisioning, copy-on-write snapshots, and ease of administration. Most notably, … Read more
After using several Synology NAS’es for many years, I now decided to go for a DIY NAS. I grew discontented with the Synology NAS’es for several reasons. The most important reason is the fact that I use the provided packages of the Synology less and less and relied more and more on docker containers for … Read more
Unfortunately, BTRFS doesn’t have an integrated, on filesystem level, encryption solution. The best solution for now (until hopefully BTRFS will get an integrated encryption solution) is to make use of LUKS. This adds a layer, but comes with the advantage of having full disk encryption that is transparent for the upper layer, in our case … Read more