Creating NILFS2 on Fedora 11

Creating NILFS2 on Fedora 11

[Prasenjit Giri]

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I tried to format a partition, though it formatted me the drive with this,
but upon fdisk -l it didn't show the new type.

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Re: Creating NILFS2 on Fedora 11

[Jérôme Poulin]

fdisk shows the partition type which should be 83 (Linux), not what FS
it contains, most likely no utilities (like blkid) support detecting
NilFS2 yet. Be sure to keep in mind the experimental nature of NilFS2
before putting all your data on it.

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Prasenjit
Giri<tangyorangesour-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
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> I tried to format a partition, though it formatted me the drive with this,
> but upon fdisk -l it didn't show the new type.
>
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> Prasenjit Giri
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Re: Creating NILFS2 on Fedora 11

[Eric Sandeen]

Jérôme Poulin wrote:
> fdisk shows the partition type which should be 83 (Linux), not what FS
> it contains, most likely no utilities (like blkid) support detecting
> NilFS2 yet. Be sure to keep in mind the experimental nature of NilFS2
> before putting all your data on it.

That's right, blkid in fedora (also blkid upstream) does not yet
recognize nilfs; the devels said that the format is still too much in
flux to code the recognition into tools like this yet.

-Eric

Re: Creating NILFS2 on Fedora 11

[Prasenjit Giri]

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Hello Jerome and Eric,Thanks for the info. See I was trying to do the b-
tree based directory management and if fedora is still in the dumps
supporting NILFS2, which distro do you think I must use? or rather which
distro's have you all been using...

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Jérôme Poulin wrote:
> > fdisk shows the partition type which should be 83 (Linux), not what FS
> > it contains, most likely no utilities (like blkid) support detecting
> > NilFS2 yet. Be sure to keep in mind the experimental nature of NilFS2
> > before putting all your data on it.
>
> That's right, blkid in fedora (also blkid upstream) does not yet
> recognize nilfs; the devels said that the format is still too much in
> flux to code the recognition into tools like this yet.
>
> -Eric
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Re: Creating NILFS2 on Fedora 11

[Eric Sandeen]

Prasenjit Giri wrote:
> Hello Jerome and Eric,
> Thanks for the info. See I was trying to do the b- tree based directory 
> management and if fedora is still in the dumps supporting NILFS2, which 
> distro do you think I must use? or rather which distro's have you all 
> been using...
> 

nilfs-utils are in fedora 11 and rawhide, and the rawhide kernel has 
nilfs2 as well, so it's as good as any distro for nilfs2 support, I 
think.  No distro will have full integration with things like blkid, 
yet, but it's certainly useable (just mount -t nilfs2 ....)

I'm keeping nilfs-utils up to date in rawhide so it should be useful if 
you want to give it a shot.

-Eric