EXT4 Lands Optional Buffered IOmap For Significant Performance Win With Large Writes

Posted by bob on Oct 26, 2026 2:10 PM EDT
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The EXT4 file-system changes were merged Sunday night for the ongoing Linux 7.4 merge window. The headline feature of EXT4 in this new kernel version is opt-in support for buffered IOmap usage that can lead to "significant" performance improvements for large writes...

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