The merge window is closed and 3.19-rc1 was released on Saturday, marking the end of new mainline Linux kernel features for 2014.
Significant RAID5 / RAID6 improvements for Btrfs.
– SquashFS now supports LZ4 compression.
– Faster boot times for F2FS and other improvements to this Flash Friendly File-System.
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