F2FS is the Flash-Friendly File-System for Linux developed by Samsung and part of the mainline Linux kernel. F2FS is designed for delivering maximum file-system performance on flash-based storage devices.

F2FS Articles & Reviews

Linux 6.17 File-System Benchmarks, Including OpenZFS & Bcachefs   Software   2025-09-19
Bcachefs, Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS & XFS File-System Performance On Linux 6.15   Software   2025-05-10
An Initial Benchmark Of Bcachefs vs. Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. F2FS vs. XFS On Linux 6.11   Storage   2024-08-09
Another Look At The Bcachefs Performance on Linux 6.7   Software   2023-11-30
exFAT File-System Performance On Linux 5.9   Software   2020-11-10
XFS / EXT4 / Btrfs / F2FS / NILFS2 Performance On Linux 5.8   Storage   2020-07-03
The New Features Of The Linux 5.7 Kernel: Tiger Lake Graphics Stable, New exFAT, Zstd F2FS, Performance   Software   2020-04-12
F2FS vs. EXT4 File-System Performance With Intel's Clear Linux   Operating Systems   2020-03-06
Linux 5.5 SSD RAID 0/1/5/6/10 Benchmarks Of Btrfs / EXT4 / F2FS / XFS   Software   2020-01-27
Benchmarking The Experimental Bcachefs File-System Against Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, XFS & ZFS   Storage   2019-06-25
Optane SSD RAID Performance With ZFS On Linux, EXT4, XFS, Btrfs, F2FS   Storage   2019-06-20
Running The Flash-Friendly File-System On A Hard Drive? Benchmarks Of F2FS On An HDD   Computers   2019-01-28
Linux 5.0 File-System Benchmarks: Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. F2FS vs. XFS   Storage   2019-01-07
Reiser4 File-System Benchmarks With Linux 4.17   Storage   2018-07-02
Bcachefs Linux File-System Benchmarks vs. Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, XFS   Storage   2018-05-30
Linux RAID Performance On Dual NVMe SSDs   Storage   2018-03-30
Linux 4.16 File-System HDD & SSD Tests With EXT4/F2FS/Btrfs/XFS   Storage   2018-03-26
EXT4 vs. XFS vs. Btrfs vs. F2FS With Linux 4.15 Comparing KPTI/Retpoline   Storage   2018-01-20
Linux 4.14 File-System Benchmarks: Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, XFS   Software   2017-11-18
Linux RAID Performance On NVMe M.2 SSDs   Storage   2017-09-16
Btrfs / EXT4 / F2FS / XFS Benchmarks On The Linux 4.12 Kernel   Storage   2017-05-20
Btrfs vs. F2FS Multi-SSD Performance On Linux 4.11   Storage   2017-05-01
Testing F2FS With Its Multi-Drive Capabilities   Storage   2017-04-25
Linux 4.11 File-System Tests: EXT4, F2FS, XFS & Btrfs   Storage   2017-04-23
EXT4 / F2FS / Btrfs / XFS On Early Linux 4.10 Kernel   Storage   2016-12-30
Btrfs Mount Option Benchmarks With The Linux 4.9 Kernel   Storage   2016-12-19
EXT4, Btrfs, XFS & F2FS On Linux 4.6 Through 4.9   Storage   2016-12-17
Linux 4.4 To 4.7 - EXT4 vs. F2FS vs. Btrfs Benchmarks   Storage   2016-08-03
Corsair USB 3.0 Flash Voyager Drives: EXT4 vs. NTFS vs. Btrfs vs. F2FS   Storage   2016-04-26
Some Quick Tests With ZFS, F2FS, Btrfs & Friends On Linux 4.4   Software   2016-01-20
Linux 4.3 File-System Comparison With Btrfs, EXT4, XFS, F2FS   Software   2015-11-03
Trying Out Linux File-Systems With The 4.2 Kernel On A USB Flash Drive   Storage   2015-08-14
6-Way File-System Comparison On The Linux 4.1 Kernel   Software   2015-07-02
Linux 4.0 SSD EXT4 / Btrfs / XFS / F2FS Benchmarks   Software   2015-04-12
Linux 3.19 File-System Tests Of EXT4, Btrfs, XFS & F2FS   Software   2015-02-10
Linux 3.18 File-System Performance Minimally Changed But Possible Regressions   Software   2014-11-18
Intel 120GB 530 Series SSD Linux Performance   Storage   2014-11-07
Btrfs/EXT4/XFS/F2FS RAID 0/1/5/6/10 Linux Benchmarks On Four SSDs   Storage   2014-11-06
EXT4/Btrfs/XFS/F2FS Benchmarks On Linux 3.17   Software   2014-09-24
Linux 3.15 SSD File-System Benchmarks   Software   2014-05-08
Linux 3.14 Kernel File-System SSD Benchmarks   Software   2014-02-25
8-Way Linux 3.13 File-System Benchmarks   Storage   2014-01-08
File-Systems Appear To Slowdown On Linux 3.13 Kernel   Software   2013-12-10
Linux 3.12 Kernel To Bring Faster File-Systems   Software   2013-10-04
10-Way Linux File-System Comparison On Linux 3.10   Software   2013-08-08
Btrfs Mount Option Performance Tuning On Linux 3.11   Software   2013-07-21
Linux 3.11 File-System Performance: EXT4, Btrfs, XFS, F2FS   Software   2013-07-20
Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. XFS vs. F2FS On Linux 3.10   Software   2013-05-17
F2FS File-System Shows Regressions On Linux 3.10   Software   2013-05-13
HDD & SSD File-System Benchmarks On Linux 3.9 Kernel   Storage   2013-03-20
F2FS Results Mixed Against Microsoft's exFAT On Linux   Software   2013-03-06
F2FS Benchmarks From USB Flash Storage   Storage   2013-03-03
NILFS2: A Slow But Dependable Linux File-System   Software   2013-02-24
F2FS File-System Runs Great On SDHC Storage   Software   2013-02-21
F2FS File-System Shows Hope, Runs Against Btrfs & EXT4   Software   2013-02-18

F2FS Linux & Open-Source News

Linux 7.2 Features Expected: Apple M3, Initial AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL, USB4STREAM, Cache Aware Scheduling   Linux Kernel   2026-06-12
F2FS Preparing FSERROR Reporting Support   Linux Storage   2026-05-11
Linux File-System Proliferation A Burden: Requirements Laid Out For Any Future File-Systems   Linux Storage   2026-05-04
F2FS, EXT4 & XFS Focus On Fixes For Linux 7.1   Linux Storage   2026-04-21
Microsoft Upgrades Its WSL2 Kernel Against Linux 6.18 LTS   Microsoft   2026-04-11
Linux's Second-In-Command Turns To New Fuzzing Tools For Uncovering Kernel Bugs   Linux Kernel   2026-04-07
Linux 7.0-rc1 Released With Many New Features:   Linux Kernel   2026-02-22
F2FS Delivers "Several Key Performance Optimizations" With Linux 7.0   Linux Storage   2026-02-14
Linux 7.0 VFS Changes: Non-Blocking Timestamps, Standardized Generic I/O Error Reporting   Linux Storage   2026-02-10
Six Years Since The Reiser5 File-System Was Announced   Linux Storage   2026-01-02
AMD Ryzen AI Max, Intel Graphics & Other Linux Benchmarks That Commanded 2025   Phoronix   2025-12-31
It Took 6+ Years For Linux's "New" Mount API To Be Properly Documented In Man Pages   Linux Storage   2025-12-29
F2FS Brings More Performance Optimizations To Linux 6.19   Linux Storage   2025-12-09
NILFS2 File-System Seeing Renewed Interest With Additional Maintainer   Linux Storage   2025-11-07
F2FS Lands Performance Improvements In Linux 6.18   Linux Storage   2025-10-04
Intel Arc Pro B50, Raspberry Pi 500+, Strix Halo & Other September Highlights   Phoronix   2025-10-01
Ryzen AI Max+ With Framework Desktop, File-System Tests & EPYC 4005 Dominated Q3   Phoronix   2025-09-29
exFAT Fixes Significant Random Write Performance Regression With Linux 6.17   Linux Storage   2025-08-05
F2FS Sees New Improvements Merged For Linux 6.17 While Bcachefs Languishes   Linux Storage   2025-08-04
The Most Popular Clear Linux Benchmarks & Intel's Software Innovations Over Its History   Clear Linux   2025-07-21
AMD Strix Halo, Snapdragon X & Linux Graphics Were Most Popular This Quarter   Phoronix   2025-06-29
Marking 21 Years Of Covering Linux Hardware   Phoronix   2025-06-05
Snapdragon X Elite & AMD's Grado + Strix Halo CPUs Captured Phoronix Reader Interest In May   Phoronix   2025-06-01
F2FS Improvements Merged For Linux 6.16   Linux Storage   2025-05-30
Linux 6.16 Upstreams Support For Hardware-Wrapped Encryption Keys   Linux Storage   2025-05-27
F2FS Sees Nice Set Of Enhancements For Linux 6.15   Linux Storage   2025-03-25
One Line Of Code Optimizes F2FS Performance For Small Multi-Threaded Writes   Linux Storage   2025-03-16
GParted 1.7 Released With Support For Bcachefs & Network Block Devices   Linux Storage   2025-01-30
F2FS Improvements Merged For Linux 6.14   Linux Storage   2025-01-28
AMD Zen 5 Captivated Linux Reader Interest In 2024   Phoronix   2025-01-02
Linux Fixes Regression That Broke File Names With ❤️ & Other Special Characters   Linux Storage   2024-12-11
Linux 6.13-rc1 Released With Many New Features   Linux Kernel   2024-12-01
F2FS Brings Interesting "Device Aliasing" Feature To Linux 6.13 To Carve Out Partition   Linux Storage   2024-11-26
Tmpfs Adding Case Insensitive Support For Wine / Steam Play & Flatpaks   Linux Storage   2024-11-15
Linux 6.13 Very Exciting With New Feature Code For AMD EPYC Zen 5, Intel Panther Lake   Linux Kernel   2024-11-15
F2FS File-System Adding Device Aliasing Feature For Nifty Uses   Linux Storage   2024-11-04
New Patches Allow For Deleting Files ~54% Faster On F2FS   Linux Storage   2024-10-16
AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Excited Linux Users The Most In Q3   Hardware   2024-09-30
F2FS With Linux 6.12 Converts I/O Paths To Use Folios, Other Improvements   Linux Storage   2024-09-24
F2FS Inline Tail Allows For Saving Space On Small Files & Reducing I/O   Linux Storage   2024-09-03
AMD Ryzen 9000 Series & Linux Kernel Drama Made For An Exciting August   Phoronix   2024-09-01
Google Making Progress On 16KB Page Size For Android   Google   2024-08-23
fsck.exfat Can Now Check & Repair Filenames With Invalid Characters   Linux Storage   2024-08-08
F2FS, exFAT & Btrfs File-System Changes In Linux 6.11   Linux Storage   2024-07-24
Modern NTFS Driver Sees Bug Fixes With Linux 6.10   Linux Storage   2024-05-26
FUSE Adds VirtIO-FS Multi-Queue For ~5x Performance Win With Linux 6.10   Linux Storage   2024-05-22
F2FS With Linux 6.10 Delivers Better Performance On Zoned Storage   Linux Storage   2024-05-21
EXT4 In Linux 6.10 Adds FS_IOC_GETFSSYSFSPATH Support   Linux Storage   2024-05-19
Linux 6.10 Improves Performance For Opening Unencrypted Files   Linux Storage   2024-05-17
F2FS Improves Zoned Block Device Support & Per-File Compression For Linux 6.9   Linux Storage   2024-03-18
Improved Case-Insensitive File Handling Coming To Linux 6.9   Linux Storage   2024-03-08
F2FS Improves Zoned Block Device Support With Linux 6.8   Linux Storage   2024-01-11
Bcachefs Lands Big Scalability Improvement, Disables Debug Option By Default   Linux Storage   2023-11-07
F2FS In Linux 6.7 Supports Larger Page Size, Continued Zone Block Device Work   Linux Storage   2023-11-05
FSCRYPT In Linux 6.7 More Adaptable For Inline Encryption Hardware   Linux Kernel   2023-10-30
CephFS Completes Multi-Year Effort Adding FSCRYPT Support   Linux Storage   2023-09-06
EROFS Lands DEFLATE Compression, F2FS Improves Zoned Devices In Linux 6.6   Linux Storage   2023-09-02
ReiserFS Officially Declared "Obsolete"   Linux Storage   2023-08-31
Btrfs For Linux 6.6 Brings Fixes, Partially Recovers From Scrub Performance Regression   Linux Storage   2023-08-29
Casefolding For Bcachefs File-System Posted   Linux Storage   2023-08-13
F2FS Prepares Some Minor Improvements For Linux 6.5   Linux Storage   2023-07-05
XFS Support For FS-VERITY Moves Closer To Mainline   Linux Storage   2023-06-26
Linux 6.5 Features Expected: Parallel CPU Bring-Up, Intel Shadow Stack, MIDI 2.0 & More   Linux Kernel   2023-06-25
F2FS Preparing To Land Async Buffered Write Support   Linux Storage   2023-06-19
Microsoft's Linux Distribution Finally Adds Support For XFS Root File-Systems   Microsoft   2023-05-03
F2FS & Btrfs Enjoy Some Nice Improvements With Linux 6.4   Linux Storage   2023-04-25
F2FS Brings Minor Improvements With Linux 6.3   Linux Storage   2023-02-28
SSDFS Is The Newest Linux Filesystem & Catering To NVMe ZNS SSDs   Linux Storage   2023-02-25
Linux Developers Eye Orphaning The JFS File-System   Linux Storage   2023-01-13
Linux 6.2-rc3 Released - "Starting To Look A Lot More Normal"   Linux Kernel   2023-01-08
Ubuntu's New Installer Taking Shape Nicely For Ubuntu 23.04   Ubuntu   2023-01-02
SquashFS Gains Support For IDMAPPED Mounts With Linux 6.2   Linux Storage   2022-12-18
F2FS With Linux 6.2 Lands Atomic Replace, Per-Block Age-Based Extent Cache   Linux Storage   2022-12-15
Linux 6.2 Adding FSCRYPT Support For China's Questionable SM4 Cipher   Linux Storage   2022-12-12
XFS & F2FS Changes Are Tame For Linux 6.1   Linux Storage   2022-10-16
Linux 6.1 Should Be Very Exciting With Rust, AMD PMF, MGLRU & Other Changes Expected   Linux Kernel   2022-10-02
F2FS Preparing Support For Atomic Replace   Linux Storage   2022-09-28
F2FS Low-Memory Mode, Atomic Write Improvements For Linux 6.0   Linux Storage   2022-08-12
Experimental Patches Updated Working On FSCRYPT Encryption For Btrfs   Linux Storage   2022-07-24
F2FS File-System Driver Preparing A Low-Memory Mode   Linux Storage   2022-06-27
F2FS Enhancements Land In Linux 5.19   Linux Storage   2022-06-01
Linux FAT File Creation/Birth Time Reporting, Proposal For Statx I/O Alignment Info   Linux Storage   2022-05-19
Linux 5.18 Moves Ahead With Deprecating ReiserFS   Linux Storage   2022-03-26
F2FS With Linux 5.18 Boasts Performance Improvements, Faster Recovery After Power-Cut   Linux Storage   2022-03-22
FSCRYPT Adding Direct I/O Support For Encrypted Files In Linux 5.18   Linux Storage   2022-03-21
The Most Interesting New Features Of Linux 5.17 - Intel & AMD Continue With Big Changes   Linux Kernel   2022-03-10
F2FS File-System Adding Support For IDMAPPED Mounts   Linux Storage   2022-02-13
F2FS With Linux 5.17 Makes Some Performance Improvements   Linux Storage   2022-01-19
Linux 5.17: Quicker Mount Times For XFS, Few New Features For EXT4   Linux Storage   2022-01-12
Linux 5.17 To Bring AMD P-State, Many AMD & Intel Improvements, New Optimizations   Linux Kernel   2022-01-08
EXT4 Finally Picking Up Support For The Common Get/Set Label Ioctls   Linux Storage   2022-01-06
Modernized Zstd Merged Into Linux 5.16 For Much Greater Performance   Linux Kernel   2021-11-13
F2FS With Linux 5.16 Will Let You Intentionally Fragment The Disk   Linux Storage   2021-11-11
Updated Zstd Planned For Linux 5.16 With Better Performance   Linux Kernel   2021-10-05
F2FS Sees More Performance Work For Linux 5.15   Linux Storage   2021-09-05
The New NTFS File-System Driver Has Been Submitted For Linux 5.15   Linux Storage   2021-09-03
Debian 11, Valve Happenings, Linux 5.14 & More Excitement From August   Phoronix   2021-09-01
Btrfs Adds Degenerate RAID Support, Performance Improvements With Linux 5.15   Linux Storage   2021-08-31
Linux 5.14 SSD Benchmarks With Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. F2FS vs. XFS   Linux Storage   2021-08-27
Btrfs Picking Up FS-VERITY Support, Other Improvements With Linux 5.15   Linux Storage   2021-07-28
F2FS Brings Compression Improvements To Linux 5.14   Linux Storage   2021-07-07
Linux 5.14 Set To See Many New Features, New GPU Support, Other Exciting Changes   Linux Kernel   2021-06-26
F2FS Picking Up "compress_cache" Feature With Linux 5.14   Linux Storage   2021-06-12
Linux 5.14 To Support F2FS Read-Only Feature   Linux Storage   2021-05-25
F2FS Adds New Mount Options With Linux 5.13, Other Improvements   Linux Storage   2021-05-04
Linux 5.13 To Allow Zstd Compressed Modules, Zstd Update Pending With Faster Performance   Linux Kernel   2021-05-03
EXT4 With Linux 5.13 Looks Like It Will Support Casefolding With Encryption Enabled   Linux Storage   2021-04-11
F2FS With Linux 5.12 Lets You Configure The Zstd/LZ4 Compression Ratio   Linux Storage   2021-02-18
There Are Big Changes On The Horizon With Linux 5.12   Linux Kernel   2021-02-14
GNU Parted 3.4 Released With Support For F2FS File-System   GNU   2021-01-28
GNOME 40 Will Finally Show File Creation Times Within Its File Manager   GNOME   2021-01-12
F2FS With Linux 5.12 To Allow Configuring Compression Level   Linux Storage   2021-01-12
Linux NVMe Simple-Copy Support Inches Closer To The Kernel   Linux Kernel   2021-01-04
Some Linux/Open-Source Letdowns Last For Years   Free Software   2021-01-01
Happy New Year! A Look Back At The Most Popular Phoronix Content Of 2020   Phoronix   2020-12-31
Linux 5.10.3 Released - Fixes Possibility Of Duplicate Encrypted Filenames   Linux Kernel   2020-12-26
FUSE, OverlayFS, Ceph Ready With Improvements For Linux 5.11   Linux Storage   2020-12-19
F2FS Continues Furthering Its Encryption, Per-File Data Compression Capabilities   Linux Storage   2020-12-19
Mageia 8 Beta 2 Released With A Platter Of Updated Packages   Operating Systems   2020-12-13
Some Of The Features You Can Expect To See With Linux 5.11: Lots From AMD, Intel   Linux Kernel   2020-12-11
NVMe "Simple Copy" Offloaded Copy Support Being Prepared For The Linux Kernel   Linux Storage   2020-12-07
F2FS Proposal Adds Support For LZ4HC Compression   Linux Storage   2020-12-01
F2FS With Linux 5.11 To Support Casefolding With Encryption   Linux Storage   2020-11-22
Mageia 8 Linux OS Is Inching Closer To Release   Operating Systems   2020-11-13
F2FS With Linux 5.10 Brings Many Improvements And A Few More Features   Linux Storage   2020-10-15
Google Is Adding Support For Metadata Encryption To F2FS   Linux Storage   2020-10-06
The Most Prominent Linux 5.9 Kernel Features From AMD RDNA 2 To Battling Nefarious Shims   Linux Kernel   2020-10-04
Intel mOS, Torvalds Commentary, Intel Gen12 Graphics, Zen 2 "XT" CPUs Topped Q3   Phoronix   2020-09-29
Linux Receiving Generic Casefolding Implementation For File-Systems   Linux Storage   2020-08-31
ATGC Could Come In Linux 5.10 For F2FS, Much Faster Decompression Speeds Too   Linux Storage   2020-08-23
OpenZFS File-System Merges Support For Using Zstd Compression   Linux Storage   2020-08-22
F2FS With Linux 5.9 Adds Secure TRIM, New Garbage Collection Option   Linux Storage   2020-08-11
Mageia 8 Beta 1 Released With Many Improvements   Operating Systems   2020-08-07
FSCRYPT Inline Encryption Ready To Offer Better Performance On Modern SoCs   Linux Storage   2020-08-03
Linux 5.8 Released With AMD Energy Driver, F2FS LZO-RLE, IBM POWER10 Booting   Linux Kernel   2020-08-02
Changes Expected For The Linux 5.9 Kernel From Intel DG1 To AMD Navi 2 To New CPU Capabilities   Linux Kernel   2020-08-02
Rust Maybe Coming To The Linux Kernel, Other Open-Source Milestones For July   Phoronix   2020-08-02
Eight Great Features Of Linux 5.8   Linux Kernel   2020-07-31
F2FS Preparing To Introduce New "Secure Erase" Functionality   Linux Storage   2020-07-14
"ATGC" Aims To Offer Greater Garbage Collection Efficiency For F2FS   Linux Storage   2020-07-07
F2FS Improvements Sent In For Linux 5.8 With LZO-RLE, New Compression Knobs   Linux Storage   2020-06-10
Linux 5.7 Kernel Released With New Apple Driver, Official Intel Gen12 Graphics   Linux Kernel   2020-05-31
The Top Linux 5.7 Features From Apple Fast Charge To Official Tiger Lake Graphics   Linux Kernel   2020-05-29
Zstd Compression Under Review For OpenZFS   Linux Storage   2020-05-17
Linux 5.8's Multi-Queue Block Code Plumbed To Support Inline Encryption   Linux Storage   2020-05-15
FSCRYPT Inline Encryption Still Being Prepared For The Linux Kernel   Linux Storage   2020-05-04
F2FS Added Zstd Compression With Linux 5.7 While Now is Working On LZO-RLE   Linux Storage   2020-04-16
LOOPFS File-System Proposed For Linux   Linux Storage   2020-04-08
F2FS Introduces Zstd Compression Support With The Linux 5.7 Kernel   Linux Storage   2020-04-07
Apple Using Rust, exFAT, Ryzen Laptops, Ubuntu 20.04 Advances + Other Hits From March   Phoronix   2020-03-31