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Latest Linux News Huawei Announces EROFS Linux File-System, Might Huawei Announces EROFS Linux File- Eventually Be Used By Android Devices System, Might Eventually Be Used By Android Devices Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Storage on 31 May 2018 at 09:00 AM EDT. 3 Comments Mesa 18.0.5 Is The Last Planned Release In Huawei's Gao Xiang has announced the EROFS open-source Linux file-system The Series intended for Android devices, but still at its very early stages of AMD K8 Support Stripped Out Of Coreboot development. NVIDIA’s Next Generation Mainstream GPU Will At Least Be Detailed In August EROFS is the company's new approach for a read-only file-system that would work well for Android devices. EROFS is short for the Extendable Read-Only GNOME 3 Might Be Too Resource Hungry To File-System and they began developing it with being unsatisfied with other read-only file- Ever Run Nicely On The Raspberry Pi system alternatives. XWayland Gets Patch To Automatically Use EGLStreams For NVIDIA Support When EROFS is designed to offer better performance than other read-only alternatives while still Needed focusing upon saving storage space. As part of EROFS is also a compression mode pursuing BPFILTER Landing For Linux 4.18 For a different design approach than other file-systems: the compression numbers shared in Eventually Better Firewall / Packet Filtering today's announcement on both server hardware and a Kirin 970 are compelling for being in AMDGPU Patches Prepping JPEG Support For the early stages of development. "Video Core Next"

EROFS is still very much a work-in-progress and the on-disk layout format has yet to be Feral's Former Linux Team Lead Is Now finalized. It will likely take several months at a minimum before Huawei potentially seeks the Working For Unity inclusion of the code into the mainline Linux kernel. The Last Call For Testing Ahead Of Phoronix Test Suite 8.0, Early Work On Android

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Bcachefs Linux File-System Benchmarks vs. Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, XFS Linux 4.17 I/O Scheduler Tests On An NVMe SSD Yield Surprising Results Initial Benchmarks Of OpenSUSE Leap 15 Don't look for EROFS appearing on Android devices in the immediate future, it's still in the vs. Leap 42.3 vs. Tumbleweed very early stages of development. 12-Way Linux Graphics Card Comparison Using The Newest May 2018 Drivers The user-space bits for making a EROFS file-system will be published once they clear their internal review, but for now the initial five thousand lines of kernel code making up this GCC vs. LLVM Clang vs. AOCC Compilers On read-only file-system driver can be found for review and discussion on the kernel mailing AMD Threadripper list.

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