Zstd 1.5.1 Released With Even More Performance Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Zstd 1.5.1 Released With Even More Performance Improvements

Zstandard 1.5.1 is now available as the latest release of this widely-used data compression algorithm backed by Facebook that delivers on great performance. With the new release, performance is even better...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Zstd-1.5.1-Released

[Chewi]

And it works on m68k now! Hurray! Many thanks to upstream for taking that seriously.

[timofonic]

I never use Facebook nor Instagram or any of their products and consider them very evil (and fatal for teenagers), but Zstd is their only good product.

Btrfs is a total failure.

Congratulations, Facebook = META. You did something good, finally

[zxy_thf]

I never use Facebook nor Instagram or any of their products and consider them very evil (and fatal for teenagers), but Zstd is their only good product.

Btrfs is a total failure.

Congratulations, Facebook = META. You did something good, finally

Btrfs is a nice product when used wisely.
It saved me from memory failure by mandating checksums on data.Otherwise I would suffer from silent data corruptions.
Now I'm using it whenever possible due to the fears of future hardware problems. (But I never use its fancy but counter-intuitive features).

[C8292]

When will this batch reach the kernel for the btrfs+zstd?

[timofonic]

Btrfs is a nice product when used wisely.
It saved me from memory failure by mandating checksums on data.Otherwise I would suffer from silent data corruptions.
Now I'm using it whenever possible due to the fears of future hardware problems. (But I never use its fancy but counter-intuitive features).

I disagree.

I consider critical stuff like a filesystem ought to work nicely without tuning, with sane defaults and all available features working nicely. If tuning and avoiding features is mandatory for a harmless experience, it's not good at all.

[HD7950]

When will this batch reach the kernel for the btrfs+zstd?

Kernel 5.16 has ZSTD 1.5.

Kernel 5.17 will have 1.5.1.

[Danny3]

Now I wish the kernel part will be upgraded to this version ASAP!
Hopefully it's easy to do it and it will be available in 5.17.
With this, the other IO and networking improvements and what is inherited from the previous kernel, 5.17 should be amazing!

[sdack]

Must say this is turning into one of the most pleasing projects to watch grow. My kind of ASMR.

[er888kh]

I disagree.

I consider critical stuff like a filesystem ought to work nicely without tuning, with sane defaults and all available features working nicely. If tuning and avoiding features is mandatory for a harmless experience, it's not good at all.

Nobody knows magic (yet) and different use cases require different settings (or magic). That's why sane filesystems have safest defaults that can be tuned for specific use cases.