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| 2023-01-02 |
Slax getting a new persistent storage filesystem |
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The Slax distribution will soon be getting a new filesystem for persistent storage. DynFileFS was providing persistent storage for the distribution in the past, but the filesystem had some perfmance issues which are being addressed in DynFileFS 3.0. The author warns the new filesystem is not backward compatible with previous versions due to on-disk format changes. " I decided to review the code and as a result I rewrote the filesystem's internal logic completely. New DynFileFS version 3.0 is now available at GitHub. It uses different file format on disk, so it is not backward compatible, but I believe it is worth it. How does it work? Simply said, it provides a virtual file called 'virtual.dat' after mounting it to some directory. This file can be of any specified size, like 30GB, but it does not need to pre-allocate this huge amount of disk space on mount. All changes made to this virtual file are stored in an indexed storage in a different file on disk, for example called 'changes.dat', and this file grows in time as your changes are made. As a result, it stores only the changes on disk, and not the free space between them." Additional details are discussed in the Slax blog post. |
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