[arch-general] NILFS: A filesystem designed to minimize the likelyhood of data loss
Hello! I'd like to share a link to this description/tutorial about NILFS2: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/nilfs-a-filesystem-designed-to-minimize-the-like... Did anybody try to install Arch on a NILFS2-formatted partition? Best regards, Alexander
On January 9, 2017 7:39:26 AM PST, Alexander Rath <alexander.rath@posteo.net> wrote:
Hello!
I'd like to share a link to this description/tutorial about NILFS2: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/nilfs-a-filesystem-designed-to-minimize-the-like...
Did anybody try to install Arch on a NILFS2-formatted partition?
Have you tried it? VMs are quick and easy to set up, so you can easily answer this question yourself. A quick Google search tells me grub2 apparently has a nilfs module, so my guess would be yes it's possible. --Sean
Am Montag, 9. Jänner 2017 17:20:49 CET schrieb Sean Greenslade:
On January 9, 2017 7:39:26 AM PST, Alexander Rath <alexander.rath@posteo.net> wrote:
Hello!
I'd like to share a link to this description/tutorial about NILFS2: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/nilfs-a-filesystem-designed-to-minimize-the-like...
Did anybody try to install Arch on a NILFS2-formatted partition?
Have you tried it? VMs are quick and easy to set up, so you can easily answer this question yourself.
A quick Google search tells me grub2 apparently has a nilfs module, so my guess would be yes it's possible.
--Sean
Well, I'm using it already on a daily basis with Manjaro for my root, boot and home partition (SSD) and I wrote the tutorial for Manjaro. Now I wanted to know, if there are any Arch users actually using NILFS (like me on Manjaro) or people who at least tried to install Arch on this fs. -- Alexander
As far as I'm aware BTRFS would be a better choice. Believe it's getting close to release. On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Alexander Rath <alexander.rath@posteo.net> wrote:
Am Montag, 9. Jänner 2017 17:20:49 CET schrieb Sean Greenslade:
On January 9, 2017 7:39:26 AM PST, Alexander Rath < alexander.rath@posteo.net> wrote:
Hello!
I'd like to share a link to this description/tutorial about NILFS2: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/nilfs-a-filesystem-designed-to- minimize-the-likelyhood-of-data-loss/15091
Did anybody try to install Arch on a NILFS2-formatted partition?
Have you tried it? VMs are quick and easy to set up, so you can easily answer this question yourself.
A quick Google search tells me grub2 apparently has a nilfs module, so my guess would be yes it's possible.
--Sean
Well, I'm using it already on a daily basis with Manjaro for my root, boot and home partition (SSD) and I wrote the tutorial for Manjaro. Now I wanted to know, if there are any Arch users actually using NILFS (like me on Manjaro) or people who at least tried to install Arch on this fs.
-- Alexander
Am Mon, 9 Jan 2017 12:46:08 -0600 schrieb mike lojkovic via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org>:
As far as I'm aware BTRFS would be a better choice. Believe it's getting close to release.
Honestly, I don't agree. NILFS has features that Btrfs will never have, simply because of it's design. NILFS is based on incremental checkpoints, which are set every few seconds. A checkpoint can be flagged as snapshot retroactively. Thus even files deleted by accident can be simply restored. That's a completely different concept. A concept that might be even more suitable for a single user desktop than the concept of Btrfs.
On 09-01-2017 15:39, Alexander Rath wrote:
Hello!
I'd like to share a link to this description/tutorial about NILFS2: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/nilfs-a-filesystem-designed-to-minimize-the-like...
Did anybody try to install Arch on a NILFS2-formatted partition?
Best regards, Alexander
Try it yourself and see how it works. Make sure you use it until you write enough data to disk/partition that it would fill it if data did not get overwritten (I'm thinking system updates). I think I've tried it a few years back in a usb drive, didn't like it. Can't comment on data loss, I don't remember if it ever imploded. -- Mauro Santos
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Alexander Rath
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Mauro Santos
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mike lojkovic
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Sean Greenslade