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… The patches introducing huge folios for Btrfs have made it into David Sterba's kdave/linux.git's for-next Git branch . With the work now in the Btrfs' "for-next" Git branch, they should be submitted as part of the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window.
… Back in Linux 6.17, Btrfs introduced experimental support for large folios as the ability to help out Btrfs performance by some single digit percentage improvements for real-world workloads. …
… Harmstone explained with the change : "Before btrfs switched to the new mount API in 2023, we were setting SB NOSEC in btrfs mount root . …
… There was a separate pull request today as well containing the other Btrfs fixes for the week. …
Fixing "unfixable" 41TB BTRFS by Claude's one-shot
I understand how traditional raid and all zfs combination works. What i dont understand is with btrfs on unraid how many drives can you lose with raid 10. With btrfs on unraid, you can mix and match sizes of drives becau…
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Didn't expect to ever make a post like this, but Btrfs genuinely saved me today. I ran into that weird Phantom Liberty bug where all vehicle engine sounds disappear after entering Dogtown. Radio still worked, city sounds…
Two things I'd love to know the under-the-hood reasons for, and I assume both might have to do with its copy-on-write nature, which I admit I still don't fully understand. 1) Unlike I know from NTFS (and maybe also EXT?)…
… Back in Linux 6.19, Btrfs added an experimental shutdown ioctl . The Btrfs shutdown ioctl is used to set the file-system state as shutdown and for pending operations to attempt to finish them on time and halt. …
… For those using Wild on a Btrfs file-system or VFAT , the linker will now default to "--no-mmap-output-file" for better performance. …
… Biggers has been working through an AVX-512 version of xor gen to help with Linux software RAID performance and the like, that function is also used by some Linux file-systems directly like Btrfs too. …
… Will be interesting to ultimately see its adoption and how it stands up against Btrfs with Fedora Workstation. …
… Before immutability was popular, the answer was simply Btrfs filesystem paired with automatic snapshots, addressing the exact same issue. …
… This would include removing GRUB's support for the Btrfs, XFS, and ZFS file-systems, among others. …