XFS Has A Second Round Of Improvements For Linux 5.7
Last week the XFS file-system saw its first round of updates for the Linux 5.7 kernel cycle that included preparations for supporting online repair in the future as well as many underlying code improvements. A second round of code improvements were sent in on Thursday for this mature file-system.
The second batch of new XFS code for Linux 5.7 includes better handling when consuming a lot of memory, memory reclaim improvements, and better handling when nearly out of space on the file-system.
XFS maintainer Darrick Wong characterized this second serving of changes as "this batch changes how xfs interacts with memory reclaim; how the log batches and throttles log items; how hard writes near ENOSPC will try to squeeze more space out of the filesystem; and hopefully fix the last of the umount hangs after a catastrophic failure."
The full list of these XFS changes for Linux 5.7 via this pull request.
The second batch of new XFS code for Linux 5.7 includes better handling when consuming a lot of memory, memory reclaim improvements, and better handling when nearly out of space on the file-system.
XFS maintainer Darrick Wong characterized this second serving of changes as "this batch changes how xfs interacts with memory reclaim; how the log batches and throttles log items; how hard writes near ENOSPC will try to squeeze more space out of the filesystem; and hopefully fix the last of the umount hangs after a catastrophic failure."
The full list of these XFS changes for Linux 5.7 via this pull request.
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