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NILFS2 File-System Seeing More Fixes, Additional Ioctls Wired Up Ahead Of Linux 6.12
While Bcachefs and Btrfs capture much of the Linux file-system spotlight these days when it comes to exciting developments, there is no shortage of alternative open-source file-systems
NILFS2 is a log-structured file-system that has been in the mainline kernel for more than a decade and known to work particularly well for latency-sensitive environments and/or systems with a plethora of small files. Being queued up as part of Andrew Morton's MM patches queue is a larger than usual assortment of fixes and new features. Given the timing of these patches being queued into Morton's MM branches, it's likely this new NILFS2 work will be found in the upcoming Linux 6.12 merge window.
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