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Learning RHEL Networking

By : Andrew Mallett, Adam Miller
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Learning RHEL Networking

By: Andrew Mallett, Adam Miller

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning RHEL Networking
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing btrfs


Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 or later, you will find that btrfs is installed by default even on a minimal installation. However, if you are using earlier versions, you can install the btrfs filesystem with yum in the normal way, as shown in the following command:

# yum install -y btrfs-progs

With the filesystem installed, we can check the version that we have implemented using the following command:

$ btrfs --version

On RHEL 7, the version is 3.12, whereas on RHEL 7.1, the version is 3.16.2.

Now that we understand a little of the power behind btrfs, let's begin with some simple implementation examples.