F2FS Improvements Merged For Linux 6.14
Last week saw the new Bcachefs features and Btrfs changes land along with XFS real-time improvements for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel while overnight the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) changes were merged for that other exciting and actively-advancing open-source file-system.
F2FS with Linux 6.14 is converting more I/O paths to using folios, performance optimizations for faster block truncation, and there is caching of more dentry pages. Plus a variety of different bug-fixes to the F2FS driver.
The block truncation optimization comes by way of the f2fs_truncate_data_blocks_range function with making use of f2fs_invalidate_blocks' ability to process continuous blocks at a time.
The full list of F2FS feature patches for the Linux 6.14 kernel via this pull request that has since landed within the latest Linux Git code.
F2FS with Linux 6.14 is converting more I/O paths to using folios, performance optimizations for faster block truncation, and there is caching of more dentry pages. Plus a variety of different bug-fixes to the F2FS driver.
The block truncation optimization comes by way of the f2fs_truncate_data_blocks_range function with making use of f2fs_invalidate_blocks' ability to process continuous blocks at a time.
The full list of F2FS feature patches for the Linux 6.14 kernel via this pull request that has since landed within the latest Linux Git code.