XFS Is Packing Many Improvements With Linux 5.9 Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Storage on 10 August 2020 at 12:01 AM EDT. 5 Comments The XFS file-system has many improvements ready for the Linux 5.9 kernel. The main XFS feature pull was sent in on Friday for Linux 5.9 and includes a wealth of improvements for this mature file-system: - Inode flushing with XFS is now fully asynchronous. Additi