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WinBtrfs - an open-source btrfs driver for Windows

30 mentions on Hacker News by 29 people: 8 stories, 22 comments · first 2016-02-22 · latest 2026-07-08

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  1. …technically flawed, but more because it isn't extensively tested or commercially-supported. [0]: https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
  2. btrfs has a real driver at least https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs It's what my steamdeck is formatted to so I could plop the drive into windows and rip steamapps across to shortcut a lot of downloading.
  3. Now combine that with https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs (WinBtrfs) for extra fun !1!!
  4. …because the reference implementation uses one license doesn't mean that others must use it too. [1] https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
  5. …access it on windows and linux, as the windows btrfs driver[1] is rather mature these days! [1]: https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
    comment by zipy124 · 2025-02-12 · in JJ Cheat Sheet
  6. …as part of the free operating system ReactOS." This is from the ntfs2btrfs maintainer's page. https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
  7. These days there is a full native Btrfs implementation for Windows. https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs It's complete enough you can boot and run Windows from Btrfs. https://lilysthings.org/blog/windows-on-btrfs/ I wonder how many of…
    comment by lproven · 2024-09-11 · in Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison
  8. …on anything other than Ubuntu, where Canonical ships kernels with ZFS built right in. [0]: https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
    comment by hddherman · 2024-05-13 · in Linux 6.9 Released
  9. > I'd gladly throw my credit card at it https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs?tab=readme-ov-file#dona...
  10. …of the features, but doesn't really address how well it works. The questions in a related issue ( https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs/issues/293 ) have been closed without real answers. I wouldn't risk raid 5/6 on it without getting good…
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    WinBtrfs – an open-source btrfs driver for Windows
    story by frankjr · 2024-04-06 · 113 comments
  12. Can this be used? I knew ReactOS would use it natively. https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
    comment by chasil · 2024-03-20 · in Bug hunting in Btrfs
  13. …incredibly solid" Hyperboles can be a fun writing style, but of course, it's not incredibly solid: https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs/issues This is an exciting project though!
    comment by mrb · 2023-04-22 · in Windows on Btrfs
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    WinBtrfs – an open-source btrfs driver for Windows
    story by Maakuth · 2022-12-05 · 0 comments
  15. …from the Windows side. This works quite well (which means I never had any issue with it). [1]: https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
  16. …get an ext/btrfs driver for windows. winbtrfs[1] is stable and works great for that purpose. [1] https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
  17. There's a Btrfs driver for Windows [1] [1] https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
  18. Btrfs and WinBtrfs. The file system is the journal. https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs Previous discussion on WinBtrfs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15177002 Journal is about obviating fsck, just do journal replay to make the fs…
    comment by cmurf · 2020-06-01 · in The 5.7 kernel is out
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    Booting Windows 7 from Btrfs Volume
    story by JackeJR · 2019-10-08 · 0 comments
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    Freeldr allows to boot Windows 7 from BTRFS volume
    story by jeditobe · 2019-10-08 · 0 comments
  21. There is a Btrfs driver. https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs (I have never used it, just have seen this refered in the ReactOS release announcement...)
  22. …kernel-mode FS driver for Windows[1]. Only heard of it, though, and never tried it myself. [1]: https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
  23. There's also WinBtrfs https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
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    WinBtrfs – A Windows driver for the next-generation Linux filesystem Btrfs
    story by doener · 2017-09-05 · 100 comments
  25. …- while looking at the changelog, I found that there's a working btrfs driver for Windows/ReactOS. https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs Of course, Microsoft's driver signing changes make it a very expensive proposition to run on Windows…
    comment by voltagex_ · 2017-02-17 · in ReactOS 0.4.4 Released
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    WinBtrfs v0.7
    story by mkesper · 2016-10-26 · 1 comment
  27. Terrifyingly, ReactOS and Windows have a Btrfs driver. [1] [1] - https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
  28. https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs This guy is writing a windows driver for Btrfs
    comment by ThatPlayer · 2016-03-07 · in Big News for ZFS on Linux
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    WinBtrfs v0.1
    story by guardian5x · 2016-02-23 · 0 comments
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    A Btrfs File-System Kernel Driver for Windows
    story by spacey · 2016-02-22 · 0 comments