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btrfs and NILFS

btrfs and NILFS

Posted Jun 21, 2007 13:47 UTC (Thu) by Tet (subscriber, #5433)
Parent article: btrfs and NILFS

I admit I haven't looked into it in any depth, but from skimming the btrfs feature list, it looks like they're mostly just reinventing vxfs, partial support for which is already in the mainline kernel.


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btrfs and NILFS

Posted Jun 24, 2007 21:22 UTC (Sun) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

Of course, a codebase is not just a set of features. Maybe some NIH is going on here, but maybe not.

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