Btrfs Sees Minor Performance Optimizations With Linux 6.12

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Btrfs Sees Minor Performance Optimizations With Linux 6.12

The Btrfs file-system continues marching ahead with the Linux 6.12 kernel...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-Btrfs

[coder]

The folio API conversions are most noticeable.

Finally! I was naively expecting folios to be somewhat of an overnight win, but I guess each filesystem driver needs to be updated to use them.

[NotMine999]

I almost forgot this FS even existed ... with all of the brou-ha-ha of bcachefs sucking the air out of the Linux newsfeeds.

[Danny3]

Too bad that big mainstream distros like Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora doesn't use it by default!
BTRFS features at this point greatly outweigh whatever downsides it may still have.

As for its compression mode, I wonder now how much out of sync is Zstd code again, compared to upstream, which is at 1.5.6 version.

[JRepin]

Too bad that big mainstream distros like Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora doesn't use it by default!
BTRFS features at this point greatly outweigh whatever downsides it may still have.

Couldn't agree more, although if I remember correctly BTRFS already is the default when installing recent openSUSE and Fedora for quite some time.

[browseria]

Too bad that big mainstream distros like Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora doesn't use it by default!

Fedora switched to BTRFS by default in Fedora 33, which was in 2020 - that's 4 years now.
OpenSUSE did it even earlier than that - in January 2018 - that's 6 years ago.
I don't know what you are talking about.

ref. https://fedoramagazine.org/btrfs-coming-to-fedora-33/

[enzi]

Great to see improvement but I switchted to ext4 because I couldn't get the excessive write actions under control. Must be something deeply ingrained into the file system itself but something that writes several GBs over night, essentially doing nothing, is not my cup of tea.

[ahrs]

Too bad that big mainstream distros like Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora doesn't use it by default!

Debian and Ubuntu are too conservative, you won't see anything radical out of them. Despite there being obvious benefits to BTRFS they stick with ext4 because it's tried and true.

[cutterjohn]

Debian and Ubuntu are too conservative, you won't see anything radical out of them. Despite there being obvious benefits to BTRFS they stick with ext4 because it's tried and true.

yet, Ubuntu is the only distro to promote openZFS... I'd hardly call that conservative... and their new kernel freeze policy. again hardly conservative... more like bleeding edge... yet oddly selective bleeding edge, which, I imagine, is driven by their paying customer requests... or a perceived need for potential commercial customers...

conservative is RHEL and SLES... ...and yes Debian(they used to be stupidly conservative, but that was back in the day when it took them years and years to release... still I know people that use unstable repo's mixed w/stable... to have a sort of rolling Debian...), and slackware, and ...

[ahrs]

yet, Ubuntu is the only distro to promote openZFS... I'd hardly call that conservative...

Not by default, it's still considered experimental and yes that's a conservative approach. There's nothing wrong with investing in ZFS but they could have deployed BTRFS by default today just like Fedora and OpenSUSE (at least until the ZFS support is in good shape to be made the default).