All articles tagged with #file system
Originally Published 11 days ago — by Phoronix
Six years after its announcement, the Reiser5 file system has seen little to no development activity, with no recent updates or community interest, and it is unlikely to see a revival soon, as other file systems continue to evolve.
Originally Published 25 days ago — by Phoronix
OpenZFS 2.4 has been released, bringing faster encryption with AVX2, support for the latest Linux kernels, new features like default quotas, direct I/O fallback, unified allocation throttling, and various improvements to enhance the open-source ZFS file system on FreeBSD and Linux.
Originally Published 2 months ago — by Phoronix
NTFSPLUS is a new Linux driver for NTFS that offers improved performance and features, including write support, over existing drivers like NTFS3, led by developer Namjae Jeon, aiming to enhance Linux's interoperability with Windows-formatted drives.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Phoronix
Bcachefs, a new file-system merged in Linux 6.7, has had a secondary set of updates merged just before the release of Linux 6.8-rc1, including performance enhancements and preparations for a disk space accounting rewrite in a future kernel version. The updates also include changes for explicit context triggering, fixes for multi-threaded workloads, tracepoint improvements, and minor code enhancements.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Phoronix
The ReiserFS file-system has been officially declared "obsolete" within the Linux kernel, as it is no longer marked as "Supported" and is expected to be dropped from the mainline Linux kernel within the next few years. ReiserFS is considered outdated compared to modern file-systems like EXT4, Btrfs, XFS, F2FS, and Bcachefs. The Reiser4 development did not result in its inclusion in the mainline, and the Reiser5 file-system is not expected to be mainlined in the near future. Users are advised to switch to alternative file-system options if they are actively using ReiserFS with modern versions of the Linux kernel.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Phoronix
The Bcachefs file-system driver is unlikely to be merged for Linux 6.5, as tensions arise over code changes needed to the kernel outside of the module itself and heated discussions on the Linux kernel mailing list. The experimental file-system has been in development for years and has stable features, but it seems it will not be accepted this cycle.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Phoronix
The Btrfs scrub code used for verifying checksums and repairing damaged blocks is seeing improvements in the upcoming Linux 6.4 release. SUSE engineer Qu Wenruo has streamlined the code to address existing problems and improve performance, including reducing jumps and inefficient IOPS for fragmented extents. Expect to see these and other Btrfs improvements in the Linux 6.4 merge window in a few weeks.