XFS Zone Allocator No Longer Experimental With Linux 7.2
([Linux Storage] 5 Hours Ago
XFS + Zoned Storage Devices)
- Reference: 0001641071
- News link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/XFS-Zone-Allocator-Linux-7.2
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The XFS file-system updates for the [1]Linux 7.2 kernel aren't too notable with the exception of its zone allocator being promoted from behind its previously-experimental flag.
The XFS zone allocator is used for supporting zoned storage devices like shingled magnetic recording (SMR) and zoned namespace (ZNS) SSDs where writes must be done sequentially from start to finish. The XFS zone allocator has been part of the kernel for a while to comply with the zoned device constraints while now for Linux 7.2 it's no longer considered experimental. Again, just relevant for SMR and ZNS type zoned storage devices.
Other than that the [2]XFS merge for Linux 7.2 is just bringing some fixes and minor alterations.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+7.2
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6271f6ea7f65191762efe17c1a7d33f8922e1eeb
The XFS zone allocator is used for supporting zoned storage devices like shingled magnetic recording (SMR) and zoned namespace (ZNS) SSDs where writes must be done sequentially from start to finish. The XFS zone allocator has been part of the kernel for a while to comply with the zoned device constraints while now for Linux 7.2 it's no longer considered experimental. Again, just relevant for SMR and ZNS type zoned storage devices.
Other than that the [2]XFS merge for Linux 7.2 is just bringing some fixes and minor alterations.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+7.2
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6271f6ea7f65191762efe17c1a7d33f8922e1eeb