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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.
… Linux Enacts Guidance To Tighten Acceptance Of New File-Systems Into The Kernel Linux 7.2 Can Significantly Lower Container Exit/Unmount Latency Linux 7.2 Adds Ability To Limit Programs To Only Open Regular Files, Avoid Being Tricked Or Doing Silly Things XFS Zone Allocator No Longer Experimental W…
… Btrfs Preps Huge Folios Support Ahead Of Linux 7.2 Linux 7.2 Expected To Introduce "OPENAT2 REGULAR" To Avoid Tricking Secure Programs OpenZFS 2.4.2 Released With Linux 7.0 Kernel Support, Many Bug Fixes F2FS Preparing FSERROR Reporting Support Axboe Hacking On New Linux Patches For 60% Increase To…
… Linux 7.3 Looks Like It Will Upstream FailFS Linux 7.3 Expected To Drop The FreeVxFS File-System Driver Cryptsetup 2.8.7 Released To Deal With Fallout Of Linux's Rushed AF ALG Deprecation EFS File-System Slated For Removal With Linux 7.3 After 20+ Years Unmaintained Linux 7.3 To Overcome "Significa…
… OpenZFS 2.4.3 Released With Many Bug Fixes New NTFS Linux Driver Being Improved For Windows Native Symbolic Links AVX-512 Optimization For Linux RAID Showing Up To 41% Improvement On AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Linux EFS File-System May Have New Maintainer - Or It Might Just Get Removed Btrfs Change Coming F…
… Picolibc 1.8.12 Brings Latest Improvements To This Embedded-Focused C Library OpenBLAS 0.3.34 Improves Multi-Threading, Support For A Memory-Safe C Toolchain GraalVM CE 25.1.3 Gets Native Image "Hello World" Program Down To Just 6.5MB Git 2.55 Released With Rust Support Enabled By Default, git hist…
… This change removes this barrier making Stratis a first-class installation option alongside Btrfs and LVM." This proposal still needs to be voted on by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee FESCo , but if all goes well with Fedora 45 later this year we could finally see Stratis Storage base… …
… If you would rather have a system that behaves the way the rest of the Linux world assumes with a recovery net underneath you, a traditional distro with Btrfs snapshots gets you there.
… Offers ext4, Btrfs and ZFS , giving users more storage flexibility than many newer DIY NAS platforms. Uses mdadm for ext4/Btrfs RAID and native ZFS pools for ZFS-based storage. Includes a modern desktop-style web UI that is easier to approach than TrueNAS or a manual Linux server setup. …