[arch-general] NILFS: A filesystem designed to minimize the likelyhood of data loss

[Alexander Rath]

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