Linux 5.15 Delivers Many Features With New NTFS Driver, In-Kernel SMB3 Server, New Hardware

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 5.15 Delivers Many Features With New NTFS Driver, In-Kernel SMB3 Server, New Hardware

Feature development is over on the Linux 5.15 kernel with Linux 5.15-rc1 being issued. It's now on to testing and bug fixing over the next two months before the kernel is christened as stable. Here is our original Linux 5.15 feature overview about all of the big changes in this next kernel version.

https://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=30519

[skeevy420]

5.15 is the new 5.4.

[Joe2021]

Michael, do you have any information regarding maintainance of the kernel in-tree ZSTD code?

There was an attempt to unify the codebase with upstream (zstd-1.5.0) few month ago, since the in-tree implementation was kind off out-dated.

It is not easy to find reliable information whether this is still WIP or "mission accomplished".

[skeevy420]

Michael, do you have any information regarding maintainance of the kernel in-tree ZSTD code?

There was an attempt to unify the codebase with upstream (zstd-1.5.0) few month ago, since the in-tree implementation was kind off out-dated.

It is not easy to find reliable information whether this is still WIP or "mission accomplished".

terrelln is the best person I know of to ask about that...hint...hint

[caligula]

SMB, NTFS. Sounds like the beginning of the great Windows 11 & Linux merge.

[perpetually high]

5.15 is the new 5.4.

Retweeting this. It was profound. Hopefully 5.15 will be an LTS.

[user1]

SMB, NTFS. Sounds like the beginning of the great Windows 11 & Linux merge.

Are you implying about what I already heard lately 100,000 times, that Windows is switching to the Linux kernel? Please tell me no. Because the thought that Windows is gonna switch from NT kernel to the Linux kernel is total b*.

[franglais125]

Hopefully 5.15 will be an LTS.

For the last few years, the LTS kernel is the last of the year. It looks like it is indeed 5.15.
We'll see if it stays that way.

http://phb-crystal-ball.org/

https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

[perpetually high]

For the last few years, the LTS kernel is the last of the year. It looks like it is indeed 5.15.
We'll see if it stays that way.

http://phb-crystal-ball.org/

https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

Thank you, I always forget what the criteria was for LTS, and I remember hearing it before and I forgot. Gonna write this down. Thanks

[tildearrow]

Typos:

The AMD PDTDMA driver was merged

Amazon's DAMON landed for a data access monitoring framework that can be used for proactive memory recalamation and other features.