The speed with which your PC or mobile manages files can make a big difference in your daily experience. Therefore, storage systems such as Exfat are still fundamental, especially if you work with many data or use external discs and USB memories.
Although it was originally launched in 2012 and opened to the public in 2019, continues to receive important improvements. The last novelty comes from Sony, where the engineer Yuezhang Mo He has developed a key update for Exfat in Linux.
It should be noted that His contribution has made large files elimination up to 172 times fastersomething especially useful if you handle very heavy videos or files. So, this improvement offers extraordinary performance that benefits all users.
Delete 80 GB now only takes less than 2 seconds
The key to this enormous improvement lies in a very specific optimization within the Linux 6.15 kernel. Yuezhang Mo introduced several crucial changes that have drastically increased the speed of Exfat files.
To better understand the impact, imagine that before, deleting a large file of approximately 80 GB could take almost five minutes (specifically 4 minutes and 46 seconds), while now, after applying these changes, the same operation is performed in just 1.6 seconds.
Among the modifications included, especially those related to the «Discard» option, an option that allows the file system to immediately inform the device (for example, an SSD) when a storage block goes from being used to be free.
Before, Exfat executed this block by blockslowing down the system and sometimes causing failures. Now, with the implemented improvement, the blocks or clusters are deleted in groups if they are contiguous, thus exhausting this operation.
But the improvements do not end here. The changes have also corrected critical problems such as the corruption of the memory pile, incorrect errors management and the elimination of redundant code. Even an annoying infinite loop was solved that slowed the system under certain conditions, improving the stability of the file system.
It should be noted that the update, already integrated into the extraction application for the Linux 6.15 kernel, promises to mark a before and after in the user’s experience, especially if you use devices such as external hard drives, USB memories or Android phones with storage based on flash memory.
What is Exfat and why is it important?
The exfat file system (Extended File Allocation Table) It is an evolution of FAT32 created by Microsoft to overcome important limitations such as the maximum file size of 4 GB. It supports very large files, something crucial for high definition videos, games and other multimedia files.
Its main advantage lies in its ability to function in multiple operating systems such as Windows, Macos and Linux, which makes it ideal for external hard discs and USB units that are shared between different platforms.
In addition, thanks to the release of its source code by Microsoft in 2019, Exfat has become a popular and open option within the Linux community. With the recent improvements provided by Sony to Kernel Linux, it is now positioned not only as a compatible and flexible solution, but as an efficient alternative to handle large volumes of data.
In this way, the update is especially relevant to you if you use external storage systems, Android devices or any hardware based on flash memoirs. He had never been so fast before erasing large amounts of data as until now.
Ubuntu breaks with GNU/Linux and opens a new stage in its development
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Ubuntu is about to take a historical turn that will not leave anyone indifferent. From version 25.10, Canonical will begin to replace the classic tools of the GNU projectsuch as LS, CP or RM, for new versions developed in Rust, a modern language that bets on safety and performance from the base.
This change is not just technical, it is also symbolic. For decades, GNU and Linux have gone hand in hand as free software pillars. But by replacing the essential components of GNU, Ubuntu begins to distance himself from the traditional model that has defined many distributions.
In addition, by adopting more permissive licenses, canonical allows its software to be integrated into proprietary projects without obligation to release the modified codesomething that could completely change the relationship between companies and free software.
This implies much more than an improvement in speed or stability, it is an ideological transformation in the Linux world, in which innovation is prioritized against the classic principles of open source. And if other distributions follow the same path, the term GNU/Linux may have the days counted.
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