Btrfs

Home manager Darwin Firefox default configuration files path changed.

ButterFS auto-scrub mount points are now automatically mounted.

Steering committee voted to delegate job postings related decisions to the moderation team while the steering committee develop a more formal policy.

New York NICS meetup, October 22nd, 5 p.m. Make derivation strict deps and structured attrs attributes were enabled for various low-level packages.

They shouldn't access the disk as much, for example, when looking for icons.

The file indexer of KDE, called Baloo, now also ignores Btrfs snapshots when they're stored in your home user directory because there's no reason to index a snapshot when you already indexed the actual, uh, recent version of a file.

SVG images are cached faster and will use less VRAM while being cached.

Large images no longer fail to paste to the clipboard, which is an issue I have had in the past trying to copy giant four-K images and pasting them immediately afterwards.

And I would get this random thing where it would go like this, and it would pause at 95% and then fail, 92%.

And what was happening was it was copying a 4MB file, and then it would skip on this here because the file system I'm copying to is like EXT4 or ButterFS, and it doesn't support alternative data streams.

So I'm like, what is this data stream? Like, what's freaking in there? If only there were a way to look at that.

So here's me in 2003, 23 years ago, talking about freaking Racinovich.

There's a new UR project that is trying to be clear Linux for the future.

Audacity 4.0 is out, and we have a BTRFS roundup and some new hardware to look at.

It's a lot of fun.

You don't wanna miss it, so stay tuned.

But having it on more phones, potentially phones that I could see myself using, is pretty good, so props to them for that.

Now it looks like we're on for some good performance improvements with the next Linux kernel version, version 7.3. Btrfs users will get almost double the throughput for certain file operations and also faster logging.

EX4 should improve too.

The scheduler that prioritizes tasks and affects them to a specific core is receiving some improvements that should give you better frame rate and better frame timings in games, notably on older systems.

With every version or every two version, you get something really big in terms of performance.

And now that I have a really functional SteamOS gaming PC, I'm really happy to get that stuff, and I do hope, uh, SteamOS does those updates relatively frequently.

And on that note, Phoronix did a nice benchmark of various popular Linux file systems, including Btrfs, Ext4, F2FS, and XFS.

This was all done on Ubuntu 26.10, a daily build of that distro, to get access to both the kernel 7.2 and the kernel 7.3, so to compare not only the file systems with each other, but also compare their evolution with those upcoming patches in the kernel 7.3. Now, overall, it looks like XFS is the file system that will give you the best performance, as in faster read and write speeds across the various tests that they performed.