#xfs
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Linux 7.4 Makes Workqueue Flushing 10-100x Faster on Big Servers
A workqueue optimization in Linux 7.4 makes flushes visit only the queues used since the last flush, dramatically speeding things up on high-core-count machines.
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MeshXFS: AI Turns XFS Into a Clustered File-System
The open-source MeshXFS project claims that "no human wrote any of its own code" — the job of extending XFS into a clustered file-system was handed to Claude Opus.
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RefluXFS: a Local Privilege Escalation to root in XFS, Found with AI
Qualys has disclosed CVE-2026-64600 — a race condition in the copy-on-write subsystem of the XFS file system that lets an ordinary user gain root privileges. The vulnerability has existed since kernel 4.11 and potentially affects more than 16 million systems.