EROFS Lands DEFLATE Compression, F2FS Improves Zoned Devices In Linux 6.6

[phoronix]

Phoronix: EROFS Lands DEFLATE Compression, F2FS Improves Zoned Devices In Linux 6.6

The EROFS read-only file-system and F2FS Flash Friendly File-System were among the FS updates to land this week for Linux 6.6 -- in addition to marking ReiserFS as obsolete...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/EROFS-F2FS-Linux-6.6

[Shiba]

Its been many years, but that name still makes me giggle

[edxposed]

error: read-only file system

[guspitts]

xattr bloom filter support for speeding up negative xattr look-ups

That is very cool, and surprising. I have used Bloom filters before but for very large sets with billions of elements. That it provides significant speed up with a 32-bit long filter and so few elements is great, but not a use case I would have thought of for Bloom filters. Do other FS in the kernel do that already or is that a novel use of Bloom filters?