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EXT4 Shows Wild Gains With Better Block Allocation Scalability In Linux 6.17
The EXT4 file-system enhancements for Linux 6.17 were merged on Thursday and bring better scalability to the block allocation code as well as fixing the file-system's large folios support
But with a set of 18 patches and after going through three rounds of review, the scalability enhancements to the EXT4 block allocation code are now in Linux 6.17. That block allocation scalability work is the most interesting changes with the EXT4 pull request now merged for Linux 6.17.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.
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