Presented release of the package btrfs-progs 6.13, which includes utilities and libraries for working with the BTRFS file system from the user’s space. The composition includes a summary utility for administration btrfs, a utility for creating sections mkfs.btrfs, a program for checking the sections fsck.btrfs, interface for changing the parameters btrfstune, utility to create Images of FS btrfs-image and the library Libbtrfsutil. The code is written in the language of si and is distributed under the license gplv2.
The most noticeable Change in the new version was the addition of the option “–compress” to the utility mkfs, which allows compression during file system generation with filling contents from a specified directory of files (when using the option “-ROOTDIR”). By default, compression is disabled when generating a file system. Supported compression algorithms include LZO, ZLIB, and ZSTD, with the ability to specify the compression level, for example, “–compress=zlib:9”.
In the command btrfs scrub, the option “–limit” was added to limit the checkpoint of the check process. In the utility