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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 15 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] morto@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Brummbaer@pawb.social 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 4 points 1 day 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

[–] poinck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

While BTRFS has replaced my long standing affection for EXT4, I also have use for ZFS and XFS.

I use XFS on servers where there is already a hardware raid configured and ZFS where I set up my own mirrors.

If the the one server with XFS I maintain would need a complete reinstall, I am not sure if I would go to ZFS with software raid instead of XFS. I am interested in what you would choose for a raid with 24 harddisks.

[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 day ago

I have neverused a raid in my life. If I need more storage I just mount a new drive and fput the biggest offender on that :p