File Systems and Storage

The following features, enhancements, and changes related to file systems and storage are introduced in this Oracle Linux 9 release.

xfsprogs is Updated to Version 6.4.0

The xfsprogs package is updated to version 6.4.0.

NVMe TP 8006 in-band authentication with NVMe/TCP

Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) TP 8006, which is an in-band authentication for NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF), is now fully available on RHCK. The feature provides DH-HMAC-CHAP in-band authentication protocol for NVMe-oF. See the dhchap-secret and dhchap-ctrl-secret options in the nvme-connect(1) manual page for more information.

in-Band Authentication has been fully available on UEK since UEK R7U2.

Quotas For TMPFS

tmpfs can now use file system quotas to limit space or memory usage on a mounted tmpfs file system to help prevent users from using up all available space or memory on a system by writing to a shared file system.

Samba Updated to Version 4.20.2

The Samba packages are updated to version 4.20.2.

See https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.20.0.html for more information.