hallo

Hai!

I've signed up to this list, yet not much fuzz is around the project.
I'd happily help, yet I have no experience in FS design or kernel
level progamming. Maybe I could help in debugging.

what is the state of the project? hould I try to put my rootfs in
nilfs? Or any sensitive data? Is there a working garbage collector?
Can a nilfs drive be extended? (reduced?)

Thanks for the info in advance, and est wishes to the project (as I'd
like to have a snapshotting LFS fs on my Linux box, and ZFS is not
here yet)

Gábor Gergely

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Re: hallo

Hi, Gergely,

Sorry for slow my response.
Thank you very much for your offer.
Debugging is a major task to do.

> what is the state of the project? hould I try to put my rootfs in
> nilfs? Or any sensitive data? Is there a working garbage collector?

Unfortunately, NILFS is not able to work as Root fs.  GRUB or other
boot manager are not support NILFS disk format, Linux cannot boot from
NILFS partition.  Current version of NILFS 2.0.0 is a `testing' version yet, 
you should not store sensitive data.

Garbage collector (cleaner) is in operation on NILFS 2.0.0, please
refer a README file of NILFS distribution. 

> Can a nilfs drive be extended? (reduced?)

We have plan to get the function.  But, reducing NILFS partition is
much harder than reducing one.

Yesterday, we made a minor release of NILFSv2 testing-4, still testing
version.  And, today, we fixed a big bug that causes a calamity to
NILFS partition.  New minor release testing-5 will be made on next
Monday.  Could you test the version by some benchmark software,
such as compilebench (http://oss.oarcle.com/~mason/compilebench)
in next week?

Thanks in advance.

Amagai Yoshiji

NILFS team, NTT
http://www.nilfs.org/

Re: memory space

Hi Joe, 

> I am planning to use nilfs with a memory block device under user-mode linux
> with a 2MB static-ramdisc. So what are the memory-sized I minimal need to
> integrate it in my linux and how much space is neede for the jornalling ?

A `2MByte' disk space is too small for NILFS partition. 
NILFS does not additional space for jarnaling, but some internal meta data
files are needed.  Can you get any more space for ramdisc??

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NILFS Team, NTT Labs.
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NILFS 2.0.0-testing-5 release

Dear NILFS users,

We have released NILFS 2.0.0-testing-5:

A serious bug that caused a deadlock or corruption of
an important internal meta-data file, was fixed.
This fix improve the stability of NILFS volumes 
once unmounted and remounted.

The updated package can be found at:
http://www.nilfs.org/en/download.html

Thanks,
Ryusuke Konishi

NILFS team NTT
http://www.nilfs.org/

NILFS ML and Web will be stopped at Oct 20

Dear subscribers,

The NILFS Web page (www.nilfs.org) and this mailing list will be
stopped from Oct 20 0:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m UTC, for the scheduled power
outage.  We are sorry for your convenience.

Regards,

NILFS Team, NTT Labs.

NILFS 2.0.0-testing-6 release

Dear NILFS users,

We have released NILFS 2.0.0-testing-6:

An important bug around the page reclamation was fixed.
This fix will resolve several problems due to corruption
of meta data files or regular files, and will improve
the stability especially for small memory machines

The updated package can be found at:
http://www.nilfs.org/en/download.html

Thanks,
Ryusuke Konishi

NILFS team NTT
http://www.nilfs.org/