openSUSE 12.3 is now available for Download.
This version brings us up to kernel 3.7, from Linux Kernel 3.4 in openSUSE 12.2. New and improved features include:
All filesystems benefit from the improvements in the RAID area, giving faster set-up of a raid system, RAID 10 support for the device mapper and discard functionality for SSDs. As a powersaving measure, reworking the kernel-filesystem interface allowed for the removal of a daemon waking up this subsystem every 5 seconds. The major filesystem specific improvements include:
metadata can contain small files (speeding up reading and writing as well as saving some space) and can be check summed to protect its integrity in Ext4. There is also improved quota support and faster overwriting of files and resizing of volumes (even those larger than 16TB in size).
btrfs gains I/O failure statistics, subvolume quotas, quota groups, snapshot diffs, faster fsync, faster reading and writing for VM images and the ability to disable copy-on-write on a per-file base.
XFS brings better speed and lower latency, improved support for large directory block sizes and a variety of smaller features and improvements.
Features(Official Link)
Official Download Link
This version brings us up to kernel 3.7, from Linux Kernel 3.4 in openSUSE 12.2. New and improved features include:
All filesystems benefit from the improvements in the RAID area, giving faster set-up of a raid system, RAID 10 support for the device mapper and discard functionality for SSDs. As a powersaving measure, reworking the kernel-filesystem interface allowed for the removal of a daemon waking up this subsystem every 5 seconds. The major filesystem specific improvements include:
metadata can contain small files (speeding up reading and writing as well as saving some space) and can be check summed to protect its integrity in Ext4. There is also improved quota support and faster overwriting of files and resizing of volumes (even those larger than 16TB in size).
btrfs gains I/O failure statistics, subvolume quotas, quota groups, snapshot diffs, faster fsync, faster reading and writing for VM images and the ability to disable copy-on-write on a per-file base.
XFS brings better speed and lower latency, improved support for large directory block sizes and a variety of smaller features and improvements.
Features(Official Link)
Official Download Link
