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OpenZFS Is Still Battling A Data Corruption Issue

Phoronix - Tue, 11/28/2023 - 00:27
Last week OpenZFS 2.2.1 was released with a reported fix for a data corruption issue that was initially blamed as being a block cloning bug for a new feature introduced in the v2.2 release. Well, it turns out that the block cloning feature isn't the root cause and that v2.2.1 is still prone to data corruption and pre-v2.2 releases are also vulnerable to this file-system data corruption issue...

FreeBSD 14.0 Is Delivering Great Performance Uplift & Running Well In Early Tests

Phoronix - Mon, 11/27/2023 - 21:58
Following last week's release of FreeBSD 14.0, I've begun testing out this major FreeBSD operating system update on a number of servers. What's clear so far is the performance being much improved with FreeBSD 14.0 on modern x86_64 Intel/AMD servers over FreeBSD 13.

Mesh/Task Shader Queries Land For RADV With RDNA2, RDNA3 Support On The Way

Phoronix - Mon, 11/27/2023 - 19:55
Thanks to prolific RADV driver developer Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics team, mesh/task shader queries have landed for GFX10.3 (RDNA2) with the in-development Mesa 24.0 while support for GFX11 (RDNA3) graphics cards is on the way...

Qt 6.6.1 Fixes More Than 400 Bugs

Phoronix - Mon, 11/27/2023 - 19:40
Back in October Qt 6.6 released with Qt Graphs being introduced, more robust Wayland support, various render enhancements, and more. Out today is Qt 6.6.1 with more than four hundred bugs resolved...

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