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"Btrfs v0.16 is available for download," began Chris Mason, announcing the latest release of his new Btrfs filesystem. He noted, "v0.16 has a shiny new disk format, and is not compatible with filesystems created by older Btrfs releases. But, it should be the fastest Btrfs yet, with a wide variety of scalability fixes and new features." Improved scalability and performance improvements include fine grained btree locking, pushing CPU intensive operations such as checksumming into their own background threads, improved data=ordered mode, and a new cache to reduce IO requirements when cleaning up old transactions. Other new features include support for ACLs, prevention of orphaned inodes so files won't be lost after a crash, and a more robust directory index format. Chris noted: "There are still more disk format changes planned, but we're making every effort to get them out of the way as quickly as we can. You can see the major features we have planned on the ">development timeline. [...] the btrfs kernel module now weighs in at 30,000 LOC, which means we're getting very close to the size of ext[34]." read more

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