EXT4 For Linux 6.16 Brings A Change Yielding "Really Stupendous Performance"
Ted Ts'o sent out the EXT4 file-system changes today for the Linux 6.16 kernel. While EXT4 may not see as much code churn these days given its mature state compared to say Btrfs and Bcachefs, with Linux 6.16 are some tantalizing performance improvements.
The EXT4 changes for Linux 6.16 deliver fast-commit performance improvements, multi-fsblock atomic write support for bigalloc file systems, and lastly is large folio support for regular files.
The large folio support for regular files is a parti...
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