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  • Btrfs Now Enables Large Folios By Default, Lands Huge Folios With Linux 7.2
  • Btrfs Preps Huge Folios Support Ahead Of Linux 7.2
  • F2FS Integrates FSERROR Reporting, Reduces Memory Footprint In Linux 7.2

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phoronix.com /4 weeks ago

Btrfs Now Enables Large Folios By Default, Lands Huge Folios With Linux 7.2

The Btrfs file-system feature updates have been merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel with a few noteworthy changes for this copy-on-write file-system...

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phoronix.com /1 month ago

Btrfs Preps Huge Folios Support Ahead Of Linux 7.2

The past few Linux kernel cycles there has been experimental support for large folios with Btrfs while for Linux 7.2 it looks like this modern file-system will be taking things fur...

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phoronix.com /3 weeks ago

F2FS Integrates FSERROR Reporting, Reduces Memory Footprint In Linux 7.2

The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) changes have landed for Linux 7.2...

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phoronix.com /1 month ago

Btrfs Change Coming For Linux 7.2 Yields Very Healthy Performance Gain

A change coming on the way for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle is yielding a significant improvement to the direct I/O write performance. While a big gain, technically it's a...

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phoronix.com /3 weeks ago

EROFS With Linux 7.2 Better Handles Large Sparse AI Datasets, More Efficient I/O

The EROFS open-source read-only file-system has some nice enhancements in place for the

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phoronix.com /3 weeks ago

Benchmarking Bcachefs 1.38.6: The First Release No Longer "Experimental"

Released last week was Bcachefs 1.38.6 with a host of performance improvements to this out-of-tree, copy-on-write file-system. Given all the performance improvements and this being...

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phoronix.com /4 weeks ago

Bcachefs Tools 1.38.6 Brings Many Performance Improvements

Kent Overstreet announced the release today of Bcachefs-Tools 1.38.6 as the user-space tools built around the Bcachefs copy-on-write file-system. There are a few new features and a...

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phoronix.com /1 month ago

Linux 7.2 Optimization Shows +5% IOPS For EXT4 & XFS After Moving Around Two Lines Of Code

In addition to the surprising impact of /proc/filesystems read optimizations for Linux 7.2, another one of the VFS pull requests for this next kernel version is delivering some nic...

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phoronix.com /3 weeks ago

EXT4 Reworks Fast Commit Handling & Faster Directory Hash Computation

The EXT4 file-system improvements were merged today for Linux 7.2 with some enticing optimizations...

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phoronix.com /1 month ago

XFS Zone Allocator No Longer Experimental With Linux 7.2

The XFS file-system updates for the Linux 7.2 kernel aren't too notable with the exception of its zone allocator being promoted from behind its previously-experimental flag...

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phoronix.com /2 weeks ago

Next Bcachefs Release Aims To Include Rust Code In The Kernel Module

The Bcachefs file-system already makes use of the Rust programming language in the user-space tools for this CoW file-system and they have been planning to make use of Rust within...

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howtogeek.com /2 weeks ago

This Linux storage feature feels like cheating once you understand it

This is what happens when your file system learns accounting tricks!

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phoronix.com /4 weeks ago

Linux Enacts Guidance To Tighten Acceptance Of New File-Systems Into The Kernel

There is no shortage of different file-systems available for Linux. New file-systems continue to come about in the open-source world but ultimately many of them end up not being we...

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habr.com /2 weeks ago

История о том, как я в Debian машину времени вкрячивал

Как в Debian настроить Btrfs, Snapper и grub-btrfs так, чтобы после неудачного обновления вернуть рабочую систему за несколько минут. Читать далее

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phoronix.com /2 weeks ago

Fedora 45 Looks To Finally Offer Install Support For Stratis Storage

Ever since RHEL deprecated their short-lived Btrfs plans, Red Hat engineers over the past decade have been developing Stratis Storage as their storage management solution leveragin...

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phoronix.com /4 weeks ago

IO_uring, NVMe & Other Block + Device Mapper Changes Merged For Linux 7.2

Linux 7.2 continues seeing a fair amount of storage-related changes from file-systems to the block device code itself, software RAID, the wonderful IO_uring interface, and more. He...

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phoronix.com /1 month ago

Reading /proc/filesystems Is Surprisingly Done Very Often & Now As Much As 444% Faster

Reading /proc/filesystems for obtaining a list of file-systems supported by the running kernel is done frequently on Linux. Namely due to being read by the SELinux library (libseli...

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cnx-software.com /3 weeks ago

UTFS is a lightweight, zero-allocation file system for embedded devices

CLI Systems has introduced UTFS (μTFS), a simple, lightweight embedded storage system designed for small MCUs. Unlike traditional file systems like FAT32 or EXT4, or even lighter o...

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