Btrfs Gets Fixes & Low-Level Improvements With Linux 4.19
David Sterba of SUSE sent in the Btrfs file-system updates today for the Linux 4.19 kernel merge window.
The most noticeable change with Btrfs for Linux 4.19 is that it now supports defragging opened read-only files that have read-write permissions. Btrfs in Linux 4.19 is also carrying some validation improvements, error code handling improvements, tree checker improvements, some fsync fixes, a possible deadlock fix, resetting the on-disk device stats value after replacing a drive, and a variety of other code clean-ups and bug fixes.
More details on the Btrfs file-system work for Linux 4.19 can be found via this pull request with the complete list of patches. While fixing a number of bugs and making improvements in the process, this PR actually lightens the Btrfs kernel code by over one thousand lines of code.
The most noticeable change with Btrfs for Linux 4.19 is that it now supports defragging opened read-only files that have read-write permissions. Btrfs in Linux 4.19 is also carrying some validation improvements, error code handling improvements, tree checker improvements, some fsync fixes, a possible deadlock fix, resetting the on-disk device stats value after replacing a drive, and a variety of other code clean-ups and bug fixes.
More details on the Btrfs file-system work for Linux 4.19 can be found via this pull request with the complete list of patches. While fixing a number of bugs and making improvements in the process, this PR actually lightens the Btrfs kernel code by over one thousand lines of code.
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