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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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[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I understand ext4 being dependable, but favorite? I'm curious what makes it your favorite.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is dependable not a good enough reason to be someone's favorite?

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

That's fine, I just consider that the absolute bare minimum for a FS to be usable.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's stable and well refined. Imo these are the most important things for a file system.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

Sure, yeah, I would say you should only trust stable, well refined filesystems as a daily driver. Which is why I was curious what set ext4 apart from the rest for you.