dissect.btrfs

A Dissect module implementing a parser for the Btrfs file system, a commonly used Linux filesystem. For more information, please see the documentation.

Requirements

This project is part of the Dissect framework and requires Python.

Information on the supported Python versions can be found in the Getting Started section of the documentation.

Installation

dissect.btrfs is available on PyPI.

pip install dissect.btrfs

This project decompresses lzo compressed file systems and can use the faster, native (C-based) lzo implementation when installed, instead of the slower pure Python implementation provided by dissect.util. To use these faster implementations, install the package with the lzo extra:

pip install "dissect.btrfs[lzo]"

Unfortunately there is no binary python-lzo wheel for PyPy installations on Windows, so it won't be installed there.

This module including the lzo extra is also automatically installed if you install the dissect package.

Build and test instructions

This project uses tox to build source and wheel distributions. Run the following command from the root folder to build these:

tox -e build

The build artifacts can be found in the dist/ directory.

tox is also used to run linting and unit tests in a self-contained environment. To run both linting and unit tests using the default installed Python version, run:

tox

For a more elaborate explanation on how to build and test the project, please see the documentation.

Contributing

The Dissect project encourages any contribution to the codebase. To make your contribution fit into the project, please refer to the development guide.

Copyright and license

Dissect is released as open source by Fox-IT (https://www.fox-it.com) part of NCC Group Plc (https://www.nccgroup.com).

Developed by the Dissect Team (dissect@fox-it.com) and made available at https://github.com/fox-it/dissect.

License terms: AGPL3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html). For more information, see the LICENSE file.