People are paying attention to Btrfs improvements coming with the Linux 7.2 release, alongside broader scheduler, swapping, and storage changes. The key focus is faster Btrfs performance and related system-level enhancements rather than any security or pricing announcements.
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People are paying attention to Btrfs improvements coming with the Linux 7.2 release, alongside broader scheduler, swapping, and storage changes. The key focus is faster Btrfs performance and related system-level enhancements rather than any security or pricing announcements.
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Wild 0.10 released overnight as this very fast linker for Linux that is written in the Rust programming language and focused on iterative development.
Back during the Linux 7.2 merge window the Btrfs file-system dropped its COW fixup mechanism, which was used to detect dirty pages without an ordered extent
The Btrfs file-system feature updates have been merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel with a few noteworthy changes for this copy-on-write file-system.
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Tracking: Linux 7.2 changelog. The new release adds: a better CPU cache awareness to the task scheduler; a fairer job scheduler for GPU jobs; support for USB4STREAM; better memory reclaiming and faster swapping; better Btrfs performance; new DM target for storage with inline encryption, and more
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