From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: amagai@osrg.net Subject: Re: NILFS version 2 now available Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:50:00 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <20070618045000.0C0123E0694@fs.osrg.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: andi@firstfloor.org Return-path: Received: from sh.osrg.net ([192.16.179.4]:34724 "EHLO sh.osrg.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752520AbXFREuT (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:50:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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