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Btrfs To See More Performance Improvements With Linux 6.16
Ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window opening, several early pull requests were already sent out this week in advance of Linux 6.15 expected for release later today
"- extent buffer conversion to xarray gains throughput and runtime improvements on metadata heavy operations doing writeback (sample test shows +50% throughput, -33% runtime) - extent io tree cleanups lead to performance improvements by avoiding unnecessary searches or repeated searches There is also a variety of other smaller changes to find with this Btrfs update too:"User visible changes: - remove standalone mount option 'nologreplay', deprecated in 5.9, replacement is 'rescue=nologreplay' - in scrub, update reporting, add back device stats message after detected errors (accidentally removed during recent refactoring)
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