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EROFS Switches To Buffered I/O For File-Backed Mounts To Speed-Up Container Start Times

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Original URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/EROFS-Buffered-File-Mounts

Back for the Linux 6.12 kernel EROFS introduced support for file-backed mounts to help with container and sandboxing use-cases. As part of the EROFS "fixes" merged yesterday to the Linux 6.13 kernel, file-backed mounts are now using buffered I/O by default to speed-up container start times...

Posted on:2024-12-18 13:49:22

Still in Beta stage. Source on GitHub.