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1. Benoit (benoit@toots.benpro.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 11:04:14 UTC Benoit

   Btrfs Picks Up New Features For Linux 6.7

   https://www.phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-Linux-6.7-Features

   Ah it seems Valve may move to BTRFS for the Steam Deck?

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 11:04:13 UTC Bernie

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     @benoit Why not f2fs? That's what all Android phones use nowadays, and I've seen good benchmarks for "read mostly" workloads.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 18:55:17 UTC Bernie

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     @benoit Good point, if games from the same company have tons of duplicate assets, btrfs will help.

     Transparent compression, on the other hand, shouldn't help much: all media is already stored in compressed formats, and there isn't a lot of code or text.

   • Benoit (benoit@toots.benpro.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 18:55:18 UTC Benoit

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     • Bernie

     @codewiz Maybe to have compression or dedupe? Games are heavy these days...
     F2fs is mainly for flash storage, but Steam Deck have proper NVMe...

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 21:32:42 UTC Bernie

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     • Christian Horn

     @globalc @benoit Smartphones nowadays also don't use a real sdcard.

     f2fs performs well with the storage size of premium smartphones (512GB / 1TB). I don't know how well it would scale to much larger drives with millions of files.

   • Christian Horn (globalc@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 21:32:44 UTC Christian Horn

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     • Bernie

     @codewiz While microsd card slot is existing, the Steamdeck users mostly use NVMe.
     @benoit