{
  "id": 1761430,
  "title": "IOmap Improvement For Linux 7.3 Takes EXT4 & XFS Performance Further",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/iomap-improvement-for-linux-7-3-takes-ext4-xfs-performance-further",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-18T17:25:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phoronix",
    "slug": "phoronix",
    "url": "https://www.phoronix.com/news/IOmap-Linux-7.3-Faster"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "As part of the VFS pull requests now merged to the Linux 7.3 development kernel was an improvement to the IOmap framework used by various file-systems for mapping logical file byte offsets in memory to their physical locations on storage. With the now-merged code, this modern block mapping framework is allowing better performance at least for the EXT4 file-system...",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}