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Linux 6.11 Adds Support For Rust-Based Block Drivers & Atomic Writes


Jens Axboe has seen all of the block subsystem and IO_uring changes already mainlined for the in-development Linux 6.11 kernel.

Jens Axboe has seen all of the block subsystem and IO_uring changes already mainlined for the in-development Linux 6.11 kernel. For the moment just a Rust "null_blk" block driver has been written for demonstration purposes and to exercise the interfaces. Other block work for Linux 6.11 includes enhancing the NVMe support to include target DebugFS support, PCIe subsystem reset enhancements, queue-depth multi-path policy handling, authentication error fixes, and device initialization memory leak fixes.

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