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XFS Expanding Its Online Repair Capabilities In Linux 6.10


The XFS file-system improvements have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel.

XFS online repair can also now move orphan files to the lost and found directory, a new sub-AG FITRIM implementation, and other improvements. Aside from the ongoing online repair bring-up, XFS in Linux 6.10 also includes a new parent pointer extended attribute for inodes, bringing back delalloc support for real-time devices, and improving the performance of the log incompat feature handling. More details on these XFS changes plus more fixes and code clean-ups via this Git merge.

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