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EROFS Switches To Buffered I/O For File-Backed Mounts To Speed-Up Container Start Times
Back for the Linux 6.12 kernel EROFS introduced support for file-backed mounts to help with container and sandboxing use-cases
Back for the Linux 6.12 kernel EROFS introduced support for file-backed mounts to help with container and sandboxing use-cases. As part of the EROFS "fixes" merged yesterday to the Linux 6.13 kernel, file-backed mounts are now using buffered I/O by default to speed-up container start times. Merged yesterday for next weekend's Linux 6.13-rc4 release are the EROFS fixes that include using buffered I/O by default for file-backed mounts.
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