XFS Could Gain a Self-Healing Feature in Linux Kernel 7.0 (linuxiac.com)

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The XFS filesystem could gain exciting new features, and more specifically, autonomous self-healing capabilities in the upcoming Linux kernel 7.0 cycle, following a pull request submitted by XFS maintainer Darrick J. Wong.

The proposal, called “xfs: autonomous self-healing of filesystems,” aims for the 7.0 merge window. It brings a new system to report filesystem problems in real time and lets userspace programs fix them automatically. This patchset uses new VFS error-reporting tools from Amutable’s CTO Christian Brauner, which are also planned for Linux kernel 7.0.

The main change adds a kernel feature that sends out health events when XFS finds problems like metadata corruption, file I/O errors, media check failures, or big changes such as shutdowns and unmounts.

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[-] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 7 months ago

I'm currently in a committed relationship with my husband btrfs, but this sounds really interesting :3

[-] morto@piefed.social 10 points 7 months ago

I instantly migrated to btrfs after discovering filesystem-level data compression. This is so awesome!

[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 6 points 7 months ago

I feel the same, btrfs is such a core part of my system at this point it would be hard to go anywhere else

[-] Brummbaer@pawb.social 1 points 7 months ago

BTRFS just doesn't like me. Last problem I had was space running out because I hadn't balanced it for a while. A filesystem should be just invisible to me, if the FS creates it's own problems it's not a good FS in my opinion.

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