Improved
zfs-2.4.0-rc4
We are excited to announce the fourth release candidate (RC4) of OpenZFS 2.4.0!
Supported Platforms
- Linux: compatible with 4.18 - 6.17 kernels
- FreeBSD: compatible with releases starting from 13.3+, 14.0+
Key Features in OpenZFS 2.4.0:
- Quotas: Allow setting default user/group/project quotas (#17130)
- Uncached IO: Direct IO fallback to a light-weight uncached IO when unaligned (#17218)
- Unified allocation throttling: A new algorithm designed to reduce vdev fragmentation (#17020)
- Better encryption performance using AVX2 for AES-GCM (#17058)
- Allow ZIL on special vdevs when available (#17505)
- Extend
special_small_blocksto land ZVOL writes on special vdevs (#14876), and allow non-power of two values (#17497) - Add
zfs rewrite -Pwhich preserves logical birth time when possible to minimize incremental stream size (#17565) - Add
-a|--alloption which scrubs, trims, or initializes all imported pools (#17524) - Add
zpool scrub -S -Eto scrub specific time ranges (#16853)