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DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER2 File-System Seeing New Improvements, Initial Recovery Support

Phoronix - Wed, 10/04/2023 - 18:52
When it comes to the BSD operating systems, DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER2 is one of the most interesting innovations. HAMMER2 supports online deduplication, clustering, multiple mountable file-system roots, snapshots, compression, encryption, extensive checksumming, and other features. Over the past decade it's evolved quite nicely and in recent days has seen further enhancements...

Linux Patches Allow Changing Hibernation Compression Format For Better Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 10/04/2023 - 18:34
Currently when hibernating a Linux system LZO compression is used for preserving the memory contents while a new patch series posted today by Qualcomm allow for changing out the compression API used and makes LZ4 a new option during Linux hibernation...

Glibc Dynamic Loader Hit By A Nasty Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Phoronix - Wed, 10/04/2023 - 03:05
A nasty vulnerability has been made public today concerning Glibc's dynamic loader that can lead to full root privileges being obtained by local users. This affects Linux distributions of the past two years with the likes of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, 23.04, Fedora 38, and others vulnerable to this local privilege escalation issue...

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