EXT4, XFS & exFAT Enjoy Some Nice Improvements With Linux 5.13

[phoronix]

Phoronix: EXT4, XFS & exFAT Enjoy Some Nice Improvements With Linux 5.13

In addition to the Btrfs changes, EXT4, exFAT, and XFS are among the file-systems seeing noteworthy improvements with the in-development Linux 5.13...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.13-EXT4-exFAT-XFS

[darinmiller]

I wonder if Paragon's NTFS driver will ever land...

[Snaipersky]

XFS finally starting to see shrink support? About time.

[eydee]

Is Btrfs still relevant outside of ReactOS? All major distros have backed out of it.

[dgas]

Is Btrfs still relevant outside of ReactOS? All major distros have backed out of it.

Just a week ago, I formatted a SSD with Btrfs. Then I read it's horrible for storing virtual disk images. Which is exactly what was above to move onto it! These kinds of things are going to make distros hesitant to make it a default.

[cynic]

Is Btrfs still relevant outside of ReactOS? All major distros have backed out of it.

"All major distros have backed out of it"

yeah, sure! it's only the default fs on SUSE and Fedora, two of the major distros out there.

[jacob]

"All major distros have backed out of it"

yeah, sure! it's only the default fs on SUSE and Fedora, two of the major distros out there.

And it's offered as an install option on Ubuntu and Debian.

[Zajec]

I wonder if Paragon's NTFS driver will ever land...

The last patchset (V26) has been submitted a month ago: https://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m...8417018673&w=2
Since there there was no single comment / request for any change. It makes me hope they made reviewers & maintainers happy and it may get merged soon now.

[Danny3]

I'm more interested into the NTFS driver being merged.

[Hans Bull]

Any news from bcachefs ?