Linux 5.17: Quicker Mount Times For XFS, Few New Features For EXT4

[HD7950]

XFS & EXT4 are the only file-systems I would recommend.

[PuckPoltergeist]

Phoronix: Linux 5.17: Quicker Mount Times For XFS, Few New Features For EXT4

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...-5.17-XFS-EXT4

The main feature change for XFS with Linux 5.17 is the mount code only trying to free stale CoW staging extents if the file-system unmounted cleanly. In turn this means XFS mount times should be lower, especially for file-systems supporting reflinks and having a large number of allocation groups...

uncleanly

[jacob]

Linux 5.17 will be an epic release.

[mirmirmir]

Looks like articles about gnome are held back. Why is that?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 5.17: Quicker Mount Times For XFS, Few New Features For EXT4

In addition to the Btrfs updates, the EXT4 and XFS file-system maintainers submitted their feature changes already for the in-development Linux 5.17 kernel...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...-5.17-XFS-EXT4