Proton 7.0-4 Released For Steam Play With Many Game Fixes, More Playable Titles

[ntropy]

Amazing improvements and I am eager to see what is yet to come. Its coming closer to the turning point, where compatibility is met and then more and more improvements can be made, to be better than pure windows gaming in some fields.

I have witnessed the development since 2019 and always had a lot of tinkering going on. By now with the SteamDeck its a no-brainer. I switch on the deck at night in the very few time I got and work on that massive backlog of games like a pro atm. Just download and press play, no more thoughts necessary. Tho I will probably miss the tinkering at some point.

[RahulSundaram]

quite. xfs uses cow for reflinks https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/...haring-reflink

From your link,

Copy on write is used when necessary to keep file contents intact, but XFS otherwise continues to use direct overwrites to keep metadata overhead low

[geearf]

Yes, it means they only make a copy if they change anything. So copy-on-write means shared as long as they are only read.

Makes sense.

Not quite. It is possible to have reflinks on non cow filesystems. For example, XFS supports it. A COW filesystem gets this by default and therefore people often refer to these features together but they are not strictly tied.

Doesn't XFS support COW now?



Thanks guys!

[RahulSundaram]

Doesn't XFS support COW now?

Yes, conditionally. It is fundamentally still a traditional journaling filesystem.

[geearf]

Yes, conditionally. It is fundamentally still a traditional journaling filesystem.

I see, thank you!

[pal666]

From your link,

did you understand what it says? cow is used for reflinked files, because otherwise you can't have reflinks. btrfs also does direct overwrites over non-cow files.

[pal666]

Doesn't XFS support COW now?

yes, it does. not conditionally, it just supports cow, because you can't have reflinks without supporting cow

[geearf]

yes, it does. not conditionally, it just supports cow, because you can't have reflinks without supporting cow

Thank you!