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EXT4 Introducing IOmap Buffered I/O Path With Some Performance Gains


EXT4 with the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel looks like it will introduce opt-in support for IOmap buffered I/O in replacing the file-system's buffer_head usage with IOmap.

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