ext4 is a widely used journaling filesystem for Linux, succeeding ext3 and supporting large volumes, extents, and delayed allocation.
Cloudflare has fixed a flaw in Containers that let a Workers Paid account read the 60 KiB it had not written inside each 64 KiB disk block it touched. The fleet-wide fix needed no customer configuration changes.
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containerd 2.2's mount manager took 29.6 to 47.2 ms per Activate call in a dev.to benchmark, against 23.5 to 25.9 ms for truncate, mkfs, losetup and mount. Most of the gap is design overhead, and a panic plus an orphaned loop device from the same runs are the better reason for shim authors to wait.
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Nginx reported active and ping answered while reads on one FDCServers VPS waited 18.7 seconds and I/O pressure sat near 96 percent full. The capture taken during the failure carried the ticket through a node migration to a refund.
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On an ext4 host the overlay2 graphdriver refused --storage-opt size outright with exit code 125. The containerd snapshotter that Docker 29 makes the default accepts the same flag on the same filesystem and enforces nothing.
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A dev.to writeup reduces the storage choice to a property test on the calling code. The part worth arguing about is when each wrong answer shows up: on the first query, or at 10 million files.
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DailyMeteo serves 11 TB of GeoTIFFs from a Django app reading files off a disk. The load-bearing choices are a dedicated production box and a pull-based rsync every 30 minutes.
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The scheduler change is throughput you get for the cost of an upgrade. The more durable news is that late-cycle patch volume is now permanently larger, and the maintainer has stopped fighting it.
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