Systemd/Microsoft Effort For A Global Counter On Block/Disk Changes Coming To Linux 5.15

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Systemd/Microsoft Effort For A Global Counter On Block/Disk Changes Coming To Linux 5.15

Last month I wrote about a possible global counter for block/disk changes on Linux being discussed by Microsoft and systemd developers to better track changes via a system-wide monotonically increasing number as an alternative to the existing per-disk tracking. That functionality is now queued up as part of the block subsystem changes ahead of the Linux 5.15 merge window in a few weeks...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.15-Disk-Seq-No

[waxhead]

Oh no... Yet another article with both Microsoft and systemd in the same sentence... This might be entertaining!

[jacob]

Oh no... Yet another article with both Microsoft and systemd in the same sentence... This might be entertaining!

The whine squad is too shocked to even report for duty

[rastersoft]

And a year from now... "Discovered side channel attack involving block disk changes counters. The recommendation is to disable them".

[uid313]

I wonder if this developer had any experience with the Windows kernel code.
I would love to read an article by someone with experience with both the Linux kernel and the Windows kernel, and to hear opinions, impressions, preferences, pros/cons, and such.

[tildearrow]

Oh no... Yet another article with both Microsoft and systemd in the same sentence... This might be entertaining!

Oh not another flamewar- Take cover! Take cover!

[skeevy420]

Oh not another flamewar- Take cover! Take cover!

[perpetually high]

andyprough walking into the thread like

[skeevy420]

perpetually high
That had an F the last time I watched it.

[perpetually high]

perpetually high
That had an F the last time I watched it.

Same man, same. I'm 35, gonna be 36 in September. I haven't watched really in over a decade. But the 90s era with Ultimate Warrior, Macho Man, Undertaker, and those guys and then the Attitude Era in the '2000s with Stone Cold, The Rock, Mankind, etc. Best times. Some of these dudes are still around (Undertaker). incredible. Got lots of respect for wrestlers and wrestling.