Re: NILFS version 2 now available

andi@firstfloor.org writes:

> Could you please give some information on the use cases
> for this file system. Is it another flash file system

> Do you see it as a general purpose
> file system like ext3 or targetted at some specific niche?

We want another general purpose file system that
supports a continuous snapshotting.

There are many function for recovering error on filesyste, 
journaling, softupdate or RAID in hardware layer.  
However, human errors are not covered such function,
a mistyped `rm * ~' is executed exactly and speedy.
A continuous snapshotting is a solution that avoid such disaster.

We believe that LFS is suitable for continuous snapshotting.

NILFS uses so some resources include disk space and CPU cycle for
human.  

We will hold a BOF session in Linux Symposium Ottawa June, 2007,
titled "Filesystem support for continuous snapshotting". Please join
to discuss you're interested in snapshotting.

Thank you.

AMAGAI Yoshiji

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
NTT Cyber Space Laboratories
Open Source Software Computing Project
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