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fxdax

A port of Fuchsia's fxfs to Linux, built on a novel virtio device that stores file data in object storage. Intended as a file system for VMs that supports DAX to avoid page cache duplication while maintaining high performance.

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01 / The problem

What it addresses

Page cache duplication when VMs access file data; DAX support avoids this duplication while maintaining high performance.

02 / Source history

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  1. fxdax

    A port of Fuchsia's fxfs to Linux, built on a novel virtio device that stores file data in object storage. Intended as a file system for VMs that supports DAX to avoid page cache duplication while maintaining high performance.

    Problem: Page cache duplication when VMs access file data; DAX support avoids this duplication while maintaining high performance.

    Posted by @rvcdbn · Original comment ↗

    “fxdax - https://github.com/semistrict/fxdax a port of fuschia fxfs to linux on top of a novel virtio device that stores file data in object storage. Intended use is file system for VMs that supports dax to avoid page cache duplication while maintaining high performance”