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exFAT Driver With Linux 6.13 Reduces FAT Chain Traversal For Better Performance
For those making use of the Microsoft exFAT file-system on Linux systems, the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel brings an optimization that will help some operations by reducing the FAT chain traversal.
The last one is interesting to optimize the find directory entry-set for writing inode, rename, and unlink operations. That work ultimately comes down to a set of patches by Yuezhang Mo to reduce the FAT chain traversal. It should be a worthwhile optimization but no numbers were provided with the patches to quantify the performance impact of avoiding the FAT chain traversal when renaming or deleting files/folders.
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