XFS Gets Cleaned Up In Linux 5.3 Kernel Development Activity
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XFS maintainer Darrick Wong characterized the feature work for XFS in Linux 5.3 as "significant amounts of consolidations and cleanups in the log code; restructuring of the log to issue struct bios directly; new bulkstat ioctls to return v5 fs inode information (and fix all the padding problems of the old ioctl); the beginnings of multithreaded inode walks (e.g. quotacheck); and a reduction in memory usage in the online scrub code leading to reduced runtimes."
It's not immediately exciting for end-users but hopefully will cleanup some open issues and the start of multi-threaded inode walks could help with performance along with the memory reduction work.
The complete list of Linux 5.3 XFS work can be found via this pull request.
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