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OpenZFS 2.4-rc2 Released With Linux 6.17 Support, Bug Fixes

([Linux Storage] 4 Hours Ago OpenZFS 2.4)


OpenZFS 2.4-rc2 was released on Tuesday as the latest stepping stone toward the big OpenZFS 2.4 feature release.

OpenZFS 2.4-rc2 brings compatibility with the newest Linux 6.17 kernel release, up from Linux 6.16 previously while still supporting back to the Linux 4.18 kernel series. OpenZFS 2.4 also supports FreeBSD 13.3 and newer.

OpenZFS 2.4-rc2 builds off earlier v2.4 features including quota improvements, uncached I/O, better encryption performance by using AVX2, multiple gang block improvements, dedup optimizations, and a variety of other bug fixes and enhancements.

Downloads and more details on the OpenZFS 2.4-rc2 test release via [1]GitHub .



[1] https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.4.0-rc2



phoronix

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ehh.. Telling people "don't do that" simply doesn't work. Not if they can
> do it easily anyway. Things really don't get fixed unless people have a
> certain pain-level to induce it to get fixed.

Umm... How about the following: you hit delete on patches that introduce
new ioctls, I help to provide required level of pain. Deal?

- Al Viro on linux-kernel