F2FS Experimental Compression Is Ready For Extending Flash Storage Life

[phoronix]

Phoronix: F2FS Experimental Compression Is Ready For Extending Flash Storage Life

The F2FS file-system compression functionality is the main feature addition for this flash-optimized file-system coming with the Linux 5.6 kernel. This native LZO/LZ4 compression support is geared for optimizing the lifespan of SSDs/flash memory thanks to reducing disk writes...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=F2FS-Compression-5.6-Landing

[sarfarazahmad]

Why no Zstd ?

[Azrael5]

Question is how to install an any linux operating system by using this file system.

[arokh]

Question is how to install an any linux operating system by using this file system.

1. Install to a secondary disk.
2. Recompile your kernel with F2FS support built in.
3. Partition your primary disk with F2FS as root and /boot on VFAT/EXT4 (or whatever you like that your bootloader supports).
4. Rsync/tar your filesystem over to the primary.
5. Redo your bootloader and enjoy.

[Nille_kungen]

I partitioned my SSD and formatted it f2fs then installed a linux distribution on it.
You need f2fs-tools and run mkfs.f2fs
You will need grub 2.04 or a earlier version with patched f2fs support to boot an f2fs filesystem.

[Mario Junior]

The focus of this F2FS compression support is less about maximizing storage capacity and more about trying to reduce writes to extend the life of the flash storage and reducing I/O congestion.

Ham? 🤔

[Mario Junior]

Question is how to install an any linux operating system by using this file system.

Use some distro with F2FS support on install, like Gentoo, Arch, Opensuse (I think)...

[freedonuts]

This could possibly increase performance on SSDs bottlenecked by slow bus (sata, usb...), am I right?

[Nille_kungen]

Use some distro with F2FS support on install, like Gentoo, Arch, Opensuse (I think)...

Even Slackware current supports F2FS install so i would expect it to be pretty common.

[Mario Junior]

Even Slackware current supports F2FS install so i would expect it to be pretty common.

Debian will enable idem: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...ot-File-System