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EXT4 Has A Very Nice Performance Optimization For Linux 6.11 (Phoronix) (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ted Ts'o sent out the EXT4 updates today for Linux 6.11. He explained in that pull request:

"Many cleanups and bug fixes in ext4, especially for the fast commit feature. Also some performance improvements; in particular, improving IOPS and throughput on fast devices running Async Direct I/O by up to 20% by optimizing jbd2_transaction_committed()."

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mine too. I could not bring myself to adopt a new or different FS at the moment. I wonder what "fast devices" and "slow" in this context means.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

NVME SSDs vs HDDs, perhaps?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Might be. It's just guess work. My guess was maybe NVME SSD vs SATA SSD. Or maybe they refer to the CPU+RAM too.