📰 IOmap Improvement For Linux 7.3 Takes EXT4 & XFS Performance Further

As part of the VFS pull requests now merged to the Linux 7.3 development kernel was an improvement to the IOmap framework used by various file-systems for mapping logical file byte offsets in memory to their physical locations on storage. With the now-merged code, this modern block mapping framework is allowing better performance at least for the EXT4 file-system...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/IOmap-Linux-7.3-Faster

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