Hacker News with Generative AI: Btrfs

Btrfs Adding Fast/Realtime ZSTD Compression and Other Performance Optimizations (phoronix.com)
David Sterba of SUSE sent in all of the Btrfs file-system updates today for the now-open Linux 6.15 kernel merge window.

Linux Kernel, File Systems, Performance Optimization, Btrfs

17 points by todsacerdoti 32 days ago | 2 comments

Allocator Hints for Btrfs (tnonline.net)
Allocator hints were introduced in a series of patches for Btrfs, allowing users to configure the chunk allocator to prioritise specific devices for metadata or data allocation.

Btrfs, Storage, Operating Systems, Linux

27 points by GalaxySnail 78 days ago | 16 comments