Log-structured file system in use today

Log-structured file system in use today

Posted Aug 21, 2006 18:36 UTC (Mon) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Log-structured file system in use today by arjan
Parent article: KHB: A Filesystems reading list

One log-structured file system that seems pretty impressive with good likelihood of future acceptance is NILFS from Nippon Telegraph and Telephone company of Japan.
http://www.nilfs.org/en/current_status.html

Seems interesting. I like the idea of a 'lossless' file system and being able to mount snapshots of a file system at different times in it's history.

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