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  "id": 15759567,
  "title": "[$] Discussing a rewrite of XArray",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/discussing-a-rewrite-of-xarray",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-20T15:46:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "LWN",
    "slug": "lwn",
    "url": "https://lwn.net/Articles/1100520/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The work to support block sizes larger than the page size on XFS has been difficult. Many users of XFS run stable kernels, which means that they aren't testing new XFS code as it is released. That has made Daniel Gomez wonder whether adopting Rust for some of the data structures underlying XFS, particularly XArrays , could reduce the number of bugs lurking in the code. At Kangrejos 2026, he led a…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}