ZFSin
OpenZFS on Windows port (by openzfsonwindows)
btrfs
WinBtrfs - an open-source btrfs driver for Windows (by maharmstone)
| ZFSin | btrfs | |
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| 21 | 220 | |
| 1,183 | 5,312 | |
| 0.0% | - | |
| 0.0 | 8.4 | |
| over 1 year ago | about 1 month ago | |
| C | C | |
| - | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ZFSin
Posts with mentions or reviews of ZFSin.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-25.
- [Zfs] Utilizzando ZFS su Windows 10
- Raid 10 or Raid 60
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After losing all my data (6 TB)..
It is possible to run a fork of ZFS on Windows. For that you will want https://openzfsonwindows.org/. However, I have no idea of the integrity of the project, or, whether it is stock ZFS but with windows drivers or not. It also likely has some tradeoffs that I cannot speak too. I would be dubious of using it without playing around with it a lot first.
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External Harddrive from Truenas to Windows?
OpenZFS on Windows homepage and the releases. I have never used it, just seen some demo on one of the ZFS conference videos.
- Installing Windows bare metal on a ZFS volume
- 500TB of flash, 196 cores of Epyc, 1.5Tb of RAM; let’s run it all on windows!
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ZFS raw (passthrough) on WSL: what do you think of my plan?
Phase 2: No WSL but OpenZFS on Windows
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How to get rw access from Windows to the files saved on a SATA disk "formatted" with a ZFS file system.
You might like to ask in the forum that's linked from https://openzfsonwindows.org/; there are a few Windows-related posts.
apparently this is a thing but ymmv.
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Reliability of external hard drive?
So ZFS is my cheap RAID option. Idk how much windows support there is if people are in windows, there's the windows port but idk what kind of issues they currently have. Haven't tried it, I live in linux.
btrfs
Posts with mentions or reviews of btrfs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-06.
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WinBtrfs – an open-source btrfs driver for Windows
> I'd gladly throw my credit card at it
https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs?tab=readme-ov-file#dona...
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Bug Hunting in Btrfs
Can this be used? I knew ReactOS would use it natively.
https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
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And so it begins. Im debating on weather to go BTRFS or NTFS.
I loose out on BTRFS snapshotting and subvolumes then. And if you look at winbtrefs it’s more than a hobbiest project. It has quite active development progress constantly https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
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Software for syncing files between NTFS and Btrfs partitions.
I've installed the WinBtrfs driver on Windows, which supports read/write support for Btrfs partitions.
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Steam Deck dualboot. How to share storage?
Install WinBTRFS so Windows can read the file BTRFS file system.
- Is there ways to backup only modified files to a local drive?
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Best SSD file format to use between fedora and windows
I don’t know if that tool allows to write but this GitHub page https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs seems mature enough. I am still unsure to trust it because I could bork my SSD and files
- How will a micro sd card work on a dual booted steam deck?
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Uh oh. Used WinBtrfs to run a balance check on the partition with the Linux OS on it and now the drive is locked and it's booting into emergency mode
https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs scroll down to mappings and that *should help with sharing things between both OSes.
- For Dual-Boot Steam Deck Users: Share a Single MicroSD card on both SteamOS & Windows 10/11 Guide
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ZFSin and btrfs you can also consider the following projects:
zfsbootmenu - ZFS Bootloader for root-on-ZFS systems with support for snapshots and native full disk encryption
SteamNTFS - Using Steam and NTFS more securely
net.lutris.Lutris
BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.
zfs - OpenZFS on OS X
Ext4Fsd - Ext4 file system driver for Windows
com.valvesoftware.Steam
ntfs-3g - NTFS-3G Safe Read/Write NTFS Driver
openzfs - OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD
Proton - Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
org.chromium.Chromium
ntfs2btrfs