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AptiviLinux 6.15 will incorporate Device Mapper improvements.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kernel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kernel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinuxKernel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LinuxKernel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Computers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeviceMapper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DeviceMapper</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechUpdates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechUpdates</a><a href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/linux-6-15-will-offer-inline-crypto-for-device-mapper/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/linux-6-15-will-offer-inline-crypto-for-device-mapper/</a>

Bojidar MarinovMaximizing hardware with SSD caching via Device Mapper: or, how I got my aging setup's startup time from 8 minutes to mere seconds thanks to Linux.<a href="https://bojidar-bg.dev/blog/2025-02-07-dm-cache/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bojidar-bg.dev/blog/2025-02-07-dm-cache/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/archlinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#archlinux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dmcache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dmcache</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/initramfs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#initramfs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/performance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#performance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/devicemapper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#devicemapper</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ssd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ssd</a>

Neustradamus :xmpp: :linux:<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LVM2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LVM2</a> 2.03.26 has been released (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LVM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LVM</a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LogicalVolumeManager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LogicalVolumeManager</a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeviceMapper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DeviceMapper</a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RedHat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RedHat</a>) <a href="https://sourceware.org/lvm2/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://sourceware.org/lvm2/</a>

Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)The <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DeviceMapper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DeviceMapper</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/VDO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VDO</a> target, which provides block-level deduplication, compression, and thin provisioning, has been merged for <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> 6.9: <a href="https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/61387b8dcf1dc0f30cf690956a48768a3fce1810" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/61387b8dcf1dc0f30cf690956a48768a3fce1810</a>For more details see <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/plain/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/vdo.rst" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/plain/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/vdo.rst</a> and <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/plain/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/vdo-design.rst" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/plain/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/vdo-design.rst</a>; from the former:"As a device mapper target, it can add these features to the storage stack, compatible with any file system. The vdo target does not protect against data corruption, relying instead on […]"<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LinuxKernel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LinuxKernel</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/kernel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kernel</a>

Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)Interesting, the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/kernel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kernel</a> device mapper target "dm-vdo" that allows deduplication and compression is finally submitted upstream:v1: <a href="https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230509010545.72448-1-corwin@redhat.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230509010545.72448-1-corwin@redhat.com/</a>v2: <a href="https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230523214539.226387-1-corwin@redhat.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230523214539.226387-1-corwin@redhat.com/</a>122 files changed, 58741 insertions(+) 🥴 ```[…] The dm-vdo target provides inline deduplication, compression, zero-block elimination, and thin provisioning. A dm-vdo target can be backed by up to 256TB of storage, and can present a logical size of up to 4PB. […]``` <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LinuxKernel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LinuxKernel</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DeviceMapper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DeviceMapper</a>

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