Btrfs Brings More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.4

Btrfs Brings More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.4 Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Storage on 19 October 2026 at 02:17 PM EDT. 9 Comments With Linux 7.3 there are some nice Btrfs performance improvements to enjoy while the in-development Linux 7.4 kernel is set to bring some additional performance optimizations for this copy-on-write file-system. For those transparently compressing their file-system with Btrfs' Zstd compression support, Linux 7.4 will provide for slightly faster Zstd decompression. There are minor speed-ups around +8MB/s faster Zstd decompression with Btrfs for this

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