There's a lot of file-system activity going on for the [1]Linux 6.10 merge window: [2]Bcachefs safety improvements , [3]better OCFS2 write performance , [4]continued XFS online repair , and even [5]a "mail-in merge request" from prison for ReiserFS . The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) has also seen some new feature work this cycle and has now been merged.

F2FS for Linux 6.10 has performance work for zoned storage around direct I/O and write hints. The Flash-Friendly File-System now allows direct I/O of pinned files for zoned storage and assigning the write hint per-stream by default.

F2FS has also converted more code to making use of folios, bug fixes for the compression code path, error handling updates, and other clean-ups and fixes.

Downloads and more details on the F2FS updates for Linux 6.10 via [6]this pull request .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+6.10

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-Bcachefs

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-Faster-OCFS2

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-XFS

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReiserFS-README-Linux-6.10

[6] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZkumXs7POGImbr-k@google.com/