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The Linux File System year in review - more than 50 file systems and still growing

With new local file systems such as btrfs, new network file systems like SMB2, and more than 50 recently improved file systems, over the past year the Linux file system community has made great progress. File systems and the VFS are among the most active and important components in the Linux kernel, and crucial to its long term success. This paper will summarize the Linux file system development activity of the past year, and will discuss key topics such as the suitability of each of the major Linux local file systems alternatives, the improvements in ext4, the features of the newly accepted btrfs. It will also describe the improvements in the two popular network file systems: NFSv4 and cifs, and describe progress on the SMB2 file system (SMB2 is the default network file system protocol used in newer Windows servers and clients). Finally, the paper will give an overview of the many special purpose file systems, including the two major cluster file systems and describe changes to the VFS and the VFS interface over the past year.

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