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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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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mine too. I could not bring myself to adopt a new or different FS at the moment. I wonder what "fast devices" and "slow" in this context means.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

Might be. It's just guess work. My guess was maybe NVME SSD vs SATA SSD. Or maybe they refer to the CPU+RAM too.