Btrfs: Advantages of upgrading from UEK5 to UEK6

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Oracle UEK kernels have been providing the btrfs filesystem since release 5 (UEK5). The most recent UEK kernel is release 6 (UEK6), which is based on Linux kernel 5.4, where as UEK5 is based on Linux kernel 4.14. UEK6 as you would expect contains a lot more fixes and improvements as compared to UEK5.With specific regard to the btrfs filesystem, I will skim through…

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