The Btrfs and F2FS file-system updates were submitted this weekend for the
Linux 4.7kernel merge window.
The Btrfs pull request from Chris Mason mentions, “Has our merge window series of cleanups and fixes. These target a wide range of issues, but do include some important fixes for qgroups, O_DIRECT, and fsync handling. Jeff Mahoney moved around a few definitions to make them easier
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