F2FS Improvements For Linux 4.10: Performance Tuning, Multi-Device, ZBC

[phoronix]

Phoronix: F2FS Improvements For Linux 4.10: Performance Tuning, Multi-Device, ZBC

The F2FS file-system, the Flash-Friendly File-System, has some notable feature improvements to mention with the published pull request targeting Linux 4.10...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=F2FS-Linux-4.10-Changes

[csnate]

Is F2FS generally considered to be stable? Most information I can find seems to be from a year ago.

[Michael]

Is F2FS generally considered to be stable? Most information I can find seems to be from a year ago.

FWIW, F2FS has been very stable for me especially in the past year+

[BillBroadley]

Is F2FS generally considered to be stable? Most information I can find seems to be from a year ago.

It's not heavily used by normal linux boxes. It is however heavily used by some android phones. I believe the current samsung and motorola(lenovo) phones use it in their production phones. Presumably they wouldn't do that unless they were pretty confident about f2fs.

[Chewi]

I use it quite a lot. Never had any trouble with it save for some unicode filename corruption when I first tried it but that's long gone now. I fired up the Debian Stretch installer last week in the hope that it would offer F2FS but alas, still no sign of it. I suppose there's still hope, they don't tend to work on the installer till nearer the release date?

[starshipeleven]

I fired up the Debian Stretch installer last week in the hope that it would offer F2FS but alas, still no sign of it. I suppose there's still hope, they don't tend to work on the installer till nearer the release date?

They are waiting for GRUB2 to add support, probably. Patches for that are already in the mailing list since August, but the GRUB maintainer wants to merge them after GRUB2's stable release.

[Chewi]

They are waiting for GRUB2 to add support, probably. Patches for that are already in the mailing list since August, but the GRUB maintainer wants to merge them after GRUB2's stable release.

Good point. Under Jessie, I only use F2FS for / and not /boot.

[nomadewolf]

I hope this makes into GRUB soon

[briantech]

They are waiting for GRUB2 to add support, probably. Patches for that are already in the mailing list since August, but the GRUB maintainer wants to merge them after GRUB2's stable release.

Sounds like Grub needs a new maintainer. This is a critical feature that needs to be supported. There should be no impact to other filesystem support in grub.