Neowin News Feed for: Ext4

Linux 6.16-rc1 is out: What's new and what does it mean for your system?

Paul Hill — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 03:20:01 +0000

Linus Torvalds has closed the Linux 6.16 merge window and released the first release candidate. He said everything looks normal, but noted a late uptick in pull requests. Read more...

Following Windows ReFS improvements, Linux getting F2FS, Btrfs, EXT4 performance boosts

Sayan Sen — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 13:52:52 +0000

As Microsoft makes more progress with ReFS on Windows 11, Linux is also getting performance optimizations and improvements on some of its major file systems, namely, F2FS, Btrfs, and EXT4. Read more...

Samsung, Seagate, Hynix, Kingston NVMe SSDs may be suffering up to 53% performance loss

Sayan Sen — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 12:28:02 +0000

After the two mega-fiascos Samsung recently had with its 990 Pro and 980 Pro SSDs, more bad news could be hitting the industry as several popular models seem to be suffering from performance loss. Read more...

How to create encrypted partitions on Linux with GNOME Disks

Paul Hill — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 17:26:01 +0000

This short guide will show you how to create encrypted partitions on USB devices, external hard drives, and internal hard drives using the GNOME Disks tool found on popular Linux distributions. Read more...

Canonical set to bring ZFS improvements over the coming Ubuntu cycles

Paul Hill — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 16:10:02 +0000

Canonical has said that it will conduct a multi-cycle effort to improve the state of the ZFS file system on Ubuntu desktop and eventually server releases. Ubuntu 19.10 will see the first improvements. Read more...