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

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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] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you're interested I have a fairly thorough "I use this" post on my website (last time I updated it was in early 2023) about btrfs.

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

Sure! I'm interested into the "current" state or real world experience of it. Wouldn't mind if you post it here. Although I am not sure how relevant it is 1 year later, because the filesystem is quite under development.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Here you go: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/archive/2019-11-04/experimenting-with-btrfs-in-production/

That its under development means that it's being maintained. EXT4 is still being developed, so is xfs. And the other ones that are fairly popular, for that matter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks. But it's important to note your experience report is based on the experience of 2019 and the slight edits aren't changing that. That its being developed is not the same as under maintenance. EXT4 is fully developed and there are only optimizations in performance expected, if anything, while BTRFS still needs active development to improve compatibility and some other features.

I'm still curious to how to work with it and such a report is still welcome. I'll give it a read. Edit: Hopefully my reply didn't sound too negative. I'm interested in the process of going all of this, so the article is useful in a practical sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

@thingsiplay @drwho , as soon as RAID5/6 is fully ready (and I am aware it looks like it'll never be), I'll be switching over to it.