On January 9, 2017 7:39:26 AM PST, 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?

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 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

Am Mon, 9 Jan 2017 12:46:08 -0600 schrieb mike lojkovic via arch-general :

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.