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VFS+XFS Changes Land In Linux 6.12 To Support Block Sizes Larger Than Page Size


Linux 6.12 yesterday merged the real-time 'PREEMPT_RT' patches that had been in development for two decades

This work has been ongoing over the past 16 years and with Linux 6.12 is finally being mainlined to make this next kernel all the more exciting. Hopefully other file-systems end up seeing similar support now that the VFS infrastructure work is complete and the XFS code as a nice implementation example. Linux 6.12 is looking pretty darn exciting and slated to be this year's Long Term Support kernel version.

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