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Some people asked me questions like the following: On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:11:21 +0200, Leon Woestenberg wrote: > just wondering, any reasons why NILFS2 is one of the miscellaneous > filesystems and, for example, btrfs, is not in Kconfig? Actually, nilfs is NOT a filesystem came from other operating systems, but a filesystem created purely for Linux. Nor is it a flash filesystem but that for generic block devices. So, this moves nilfs outside the misc category as I responded in LKML "Re: Why does NILFS2 hide under Miscellaneous filesystems?" (Message-Id: <20090716.002526.93465395.ryusuke@osrg.net>). Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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config NILFS2_FS
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tristate "NILFS2 file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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depends on EXPERIMENTAL
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select CRC32
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help
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NILFS2 is a log-structured file system (LFS) supporting continuous
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snapshotting. In addition to versioning capability of the entire
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file system, users can even restore files mistakenly overwritten or
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destroyed just a few seconds ago. Since this file system can keep
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consistency like conventional LFS, it achieves quick recovery after
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system crashes.
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NILFS2 creates a number of checkpoints every few seconds or per
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synchronous write basis (unless there is no change). Users can
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select significant versions among continuously created checkpoints,
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and can change them into snapshots which will be preserved for long
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periods until they are changed back to checkpoints. Each
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snapshot is mountable as a read-only file system concurrently with
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its writable mount, and this feature is convenient for online backup.
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Some features including atime, extended attributes, and POSIX ACLs,
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are not supported yet.
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To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
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module will be called nilfs2. If unsure, say N.
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