An updated version of the user-space F2FS (Flash Friendly File-System) utilities was quietly released a few weeks back.

Jaegeuk Kim has submitted the F2FS Flash-Friendly File-System updates for the Linux 4.14 kernel merge window.

In addition to the BFQ improvements already staged for Linux 4.14, it looks like another fix will be on the way.

Besides the separate pull request that brought Zstd compression support for Btrfs with the in-development Linux 4.14 kernel, the main Btrfs pull request was also submitted on Friday for updating this Linux file-system.

Linus Torvalds has pulled in the block layer updates for the Linux 4.14 kernel merge window.

For those wanting to use the Reiser4 file-system with the just-released Linux 4.13 kernel, patches are already available.

Mark Harmstone has released version 1.0 of his custom Windows driver for supporting Linux's Btrfs file-system under Windows 7 and newer.

Ted Ts'o has submitted the EXT4 file-system feature updates for the Linux 4.14 kernel merge window.

Darrick Wong has submitted the XFS file-system feature updates targeting the Linux 4.14 merge window.

Queued in the btrfs-next tree for Linux 4.14 is Zstd compression support.

ZFS On Linux (ZOL) has finally picked up support for native encryption.

Those using the Reiser4 file-system in some capacity can now safely upgrade to the Linux 4.12 kernel.

For those thinking of switching to the new multi-queue block layer, a.k.a. blk-mq, be forewarned that there are still some regressions outstanding.

Btrfs isn't the only Linux file-system taking some heat but the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is now having a tough week with three CVEs going public.

It's been an interesting week for Linux storage with Red Hat deprecating Btrfs and Stratis being their next-gen Linux storage bet. Independent of that is now the announcement of NOVA, a new Linux file-system coming out of university research into file-systems for persistent memory.

A new release of ZOL is available for running the ZFS file-system natively on Linux. This ZFS On Linux v0.7 update does bring a number of new features.

Darrick Wong has sent in the XFS file-system updates slated for the Linux 4.13 kernel.

EXT4 on Linux 4.13 is supporting its new "large directory" feature.

I previously reported on Btrfs RAID 5/6 fixes for Linux 4.12 to work on fixing some potentially bad Btrfs RAID 5/6 problems. These changes for Linux 4.12 were enough to elevate the rating of this functionality.

The Device Mapper (DM) updates have been pulled into mainline Git for the Linux 4.13 merge window.

The Btrfs file-system updates for the Linux 4.13 kernel have been submitted.

The block changes for the Linux 4.13 kernel include some interesting changes.

AES-128-CBC support is coming to fscrypt, the generic file-system crypto code in the Linux kernel that's currently in use by F2FS and EXT4 for offering native file-system encryption support.

It's looking like the EXT4 file-system updates for the upcoming Linux 4.13 cycle could be a bit more interesting this time around.

Those holding interest in the Reiser4 file-system can now use it with the Linux 4.11 kernel.

The developers behind the Rust-based Redox operating system continue working on the "TFS" file-system that they hope will compete with the long-standing ZFS file-system, but TFS isn't being tied to just Redox OS.

There are a number of Btrfs fixes/clean-ups for the Linux 4.12 kernel.

The latest Linux 4.12 merge window pull request worth talking about is that of the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates.

The XFS file-system changes have been submitted for Linux 4.12 and includes one main feature change.

We previously reported on the BFQ I/O scheduler finally set to land with the Linux 4.12 mainline kernel. That's now happened along with another new I/O scheduler.