The exFAT file-system driver changes have been merged into the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel. Key improvements include FALLOC_FL_ALLOCATE_RANGE support for preallocating clusters without zeroing to reduce file fragmentation, a unified block readahead helper, optimizations to exfat_chain_cont_cluster() via buffer head caching, and several bug fixes including a 32-bit truncation bug in directory entry calculations and a fix to sb->s_maxbytes calculation. New helpers exfat_cluster_walk() and exfat_chain_advance() were also introduced. The XFS subsystem also landed with only bug fixes and code refactoring for this cycle.
Sort: