[$] Merging famfs?

The famfs filesystem, which is meant to provide shared access to huge memory-resident files on CXL and other devices, returned to the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1082687/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #XFS #BPF #FUSE

[$] The kernel's iomap layer

Conversations about the kernel's filesystem implementations often involve a layer called "iomap", but relatively few people can reliably say what iomap actually is. That is just t [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1079415/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #XFS

[$] The first half of the 7.2 merge window

The 7.2 merge window started with the 7.1 kernel release on June 14. As of this writing, just over 7,000 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline for the next kerne [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1078068/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #LLVM #Clang #Rust #Git #XFS #BPF

[$] An overlayfs update

In a shortened session in the filesystem track at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Amir Goldstein gave an update on the overlayfs union filesy [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1077052/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #systemd #XFS #BPF

Buildroot 2026.05 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1077379/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #XFS

[$] An update on fanotify

In a filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Amir Goldstein updated attendees on the fanotify filesystem-event monitoring [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1075829/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #systemd #XFS #BPF #FUSE

[$] Caching for extended attributes

Extended attributes (xattrs) provide a way to attach key/value metadata to inodes—files, directories, and the like—in a filesystem. As with many Linux filesystems, the FUSE filesy [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1074919/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #XFS #BPF #FUSE

[$] Separating memory descriptors from struct page

The kernel's memory-management subsystem is currently partway through a multi-year project to replace the page structure (which represents a page of physical memory) with memory de [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1073425/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #XFS #BPF

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