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EXT4 For Linux 6.16 Brings A Change Yielding "Really Stupendous Performance"
Ted Ts'o sent out the EXT4 file-system changes today for the Linux 6.16 kernel
While EXT4 may not see as much code churn these days given its mature state compared to say Btrfs and Bcachefs, with Linux 6.16 are some tantalizing performance improvements. Large folio patches for EXT4 since last year have been showing very nice performance improvements and Ted Ts'o called it out as well in today's merge request. Yes, Intel's Kernel Test Robot clocks in the large folio for regular file change to EXT4 as a 37.7% improvement to the FS-Mark benchmark:
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