EROFS Read-Only Linux File-System Working Toward New Features

[phoronix]

Phoronix: EROFS Read-Only Linux File-System Working Toward New Features

EROFS as a reminder is the read-only Linux file-system originally introduced four years ago that has gone on to see some use particularly by Android devices. While there hasn't been much to report on EROFS in recent time, they are approaching some new functionality in coming kernels...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=EROFS-Linux-5.18

[microcode]

Are there any tools for profile-guided optimization of EROFSs? Seems like one of the benefits of something like this should be the ability to optimize the layout to get related files into contiguous pages/blocks.

[Vistaus]

Interesting that noone has complained about the name yet.

[sinepgib]

Interesting that noone has complained about the name yet.

I guess they're waiting until the "hug" PR gets accepted.