The 7.0 kernel has been released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1067279/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Rust #Git #XFS #io_uring

[$] Removing read-only transparent huge pages for the page cache

Things do not always go the way kernel developers think they will. When the kernel gained support for the creation of read-only transparent huge pages for the page cache in 2019, [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1066582/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #XFS #BPF

[$] Ubuntu's GRUBby plans

GNU GRUB 2, mostly just referred to as GRUB these days, is the most widely used boot loader for x86_64 Linux systems. It supports reading from a vast selection of filesystems, hand [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1065420/ #LWN #Linux #Debian #systemd #XFS

Samba 4.24.0 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1063517/ #LWN #Linux #SUSE #ArchLinux #XFS

[$] The ongoing quest for atomic buffered writes

There are many applications that need to be able to write multi-block chunks of data to disk with the assurance that the operation will either complete successfully or fail altoget [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1060063/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #PostgreSQL #PostgreSQL #XFS #BPF #io_uring

[$] The first half of the 7.0 merge window

The merge window for Linux 7.0 has opened, and with it comes a number of interesting improvements and enhancements. At the time of writing, there have been 7,695 non-merge commits [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1057769/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Clang #Rust #Git #XFS #BPF #io_uring

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