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

submitted 4 months ago by thingsiplay@beehaw.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Huge news 🎉 Thanks OP for sharing.

It feels like a relief after reading earlier Lemmy comments in other posts about btrfs vs ext4 and having read this Wikipedia page paragraph :

In 2008, the principal developer of the ext3 and ext4 file systems, Theodore Ts'o, stated that although ext4 has improved features, it is not a major advance, it uses old technology, and is a stop-gap. Ts'o believes that Btrfs is the better direction because "it offers improvements in scalability, reliability, and ease of management".[29] Btrfs also has "a number of the same design ideas that reiser3/4 had".[30] 😢

Oh no, wait a minute, I overlooked the next sentence last time 😀 :

However, ext4 has continued to gain new features such as file encryption and metadata checksums.

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

On the last system I put together I used xfs because I was thinking ext4 development was waning. TBH I can't really tell the difference in my regular usage.

Word on the street is that xfs sometimes corrupts files, but I'm not sure if that's true anymore.

Maybe on the next system I'll be back to ext4.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago

Btrfs is newer and has more features