Get the latest tech news
XFS Atomic Writes Support Merged For Linux 6.16
Building off the atomic write preparations that landed in prior Linux kernel versions, merged for the Linux 6.16 cycle is atomic write support for the XFS file-system.
Oracle engineer John Garry who worked on the XFS atomic write support explained in the earlier patch series for this feature: However, there we are only using 16K atomic writes (and 4K block size), so typically - and thankfully - this software fallback method won't be used often." The XFS file-system updates for Linux 6.16 also remove the experimental warnings on the pNFS, scrub and parent pointers features.
Or read this on Phoronix