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Bcachefs Sees Improved Journal Pipelining & More Efficient Discard With Linux 6.9
Bcachefs Sees Improved Journal Pipelining & More Efficient Discard With Linux 6.9

Earlier this week with the original Bcachefs pull request for Linux 6.9 Linus Torvalds wasn't happy with some of the code pertaining to spinning out a new library code so that it could be re-used by at least the XFS file-system. A revised pull request was since submitted without that library spin-out and Torvalds today went ahead and merged that updated file-system driver.

15 March 2024 - Bcachefs + Linux 6.9 - 15 Comments
DM VDO "Virtual Data Optimizer" Merged For Linux 6.9
DM VDO "Virtual Data Optimizer" Merged For Linux 6.9

As a follow-up to the article earlier this month around DeviceMapper's Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) preparing to be upstreamed, it was successfully merged today by Linus Torvalds as the newest shiny feature of Linux 6.9.

13 March 2024 - DeviceMapp Virtual Data Optimizer - 22 Comments
Linux 6.9 Set To Drop The Old NTFS File-System Driver
Linux 6.9 Set To Drop The Old NTFS File-System Driver

Merged two years ago with Linux 5.15 with the "NTFS3" driver developed by Paragon Software with working read-write support and other improvements for supporting Microsoft's NTFS file-system driver. This driver was a big improvement over the original NTFS read-only driver found in the mainline kernel and faster than using the NTFS-3G FUSE file-system driver. Now with enough time having passed and the NTFS3 driver working out well, the older NTFS driver is set for removal.

8 March 2024 - NTFS Driver - 43 Comments
FUSE Passthrough Support May Land For Linux 6.9 To Help Boost I/O Performance
FUSE Passthrough Support May Land For Linux 6.9 To Help Boost I/O Performance

Being worked on and off for several years has been FUSE read/write passthrough support for improving the performance of File-Systems in User-Space by avoiding the daemon overhead on a per-file basis where read/write operations are forwarded by the kernel directly to the lower file-system rather than the FUSE daemon. FUSE passthrough mode has shown to be a big performance win and it looks like it could be finally mainlined come Linux 6.9.

28 February 2024 - FUSE Passthrough - 23 Comments
Bcachefs Publishes Patches For Disk Accounting Rewrite
Bcachefs Publishes Patches For Disk Accounting Rewrite

Kent Overstreet on Saturday evening posted a set of 21 patches to overhaul the disk accounting code for the Bcachefs file-system. This change does break compatibility with the existing disk accounting on-disk format and thus will require an upgrade when moving to the new version, which may land for Linux v6.9.

25 February 2024 - Bcachefs Disk Accounting Rewrite - 41 Comments
Micron Engineer Sends Out Linux Patches For New FAMFS File-System
Micron Engineer Sends Out Linux Patches For New FAMFS File-System

A request for comments patch series was posted today for FAMFS, a new special purpose file-system proposal out of Micron for dealing with Fabric-Attached Memory (FAM) devices such as will become more common within the Compute Express Link (CXL) server space.

23 February 2024 - FAMFS File-System - 4 Comments
Bcachefs Squeezes Last Minute Feature Work Into Linux 6.8
Bcachefs Squeezes Last Minute Feature Work Into Linux 6.8

More than one week ago was the main Bcachefs feature pull for Linux 6.8 that included further enhancing the performance and other features of this new file-system merged back in Linux 6.7. Yesterday, just prior to the Linux 6.8-rc1 release, a secondary set of Bcachefs updates were merged for this next kernel version.

22 January 2024 - More Feature Work - 24 Comments
OpenZFS Is Still Battling A Data Corruption Issue
OpenZFS Is Still Battling A Data Corruption Issue

Last week OpenZFS 2.2.1 was released with a reported fix for a data corruption issue that was initially blamed as being a block cloning bug for a new feature introduced in the v2.2 release. Well, it turns out that the block cloning feature isn't the root cause and that v2.2.1 is still prone to data corruption and pre-v2.2 releases are also vulnerable to this file-system data corruption issue.

27 November 2023 - OpenZFS Data Corruption - 73 Comments

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