The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) will see new features introduced with the Linux 4.11 kernel.
F2FS for Linux 4.11 is making use of a separate thread for discards to avoid latency problems during checkpoints and fstrim, some prep work for open-channel SSD support, on-disk bitmaps are being introduced, and various other changes.
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