#Linux #Kernel 5.7 will *not* contain the filesystem information retrieval patches (aka fsinfo), despite what a few news websites claim. Seems one wrote it's a feature of 5.7 only after the pull request went out and all others simply copied the information without verifying it.

How to verify: Here is the pull request in question that has additional details on the feature: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

The subject of the patches mentioned there all contain the string "fsinfo:", but you won't find them in the Linus git tree (as of now): https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?qt=grep&q=fsinfo%3A

Side note: Screenshot in the initial tweet of this thread taken from https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ , which explains the motivation for fsinfo and two related feature set. See that thread for details avout fsinfo and a long discussion in which among other Linus and Lennart participated.