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NEXT3(TM) is a flavor of the widely used Ext3 file system with built-in support for snapshots.
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Features
- Backward and forward compatible to Ext3
- Incremental, volume level, read-only snapshots
- Snapshots use available file system disk space
- Snapshot deletion frees up disk space
- Retains Ext3 stability including journaling and fsck
- Small performance overhead (on average usage scenarios)
- No upper limit on number or size of snapshots
Documentation
- FAQ
- Getting started
- Moving from Ext3 and back
- Snapshots design
- Diagrams
- Code documentation
- Changelog
- License
Source Code
Next3 patches will be published on the project page soon.
Please contact the project administrator if you would like to get a copy of the source code.
Beta Testing
Next3 was tested on X86 and ARM platforms with 512MB RAM.
Please contact the project administrator if you would like to become a beta tester.
Benchmarks
Please contact the project administrator if you would like to run benchmarks.
Contact
Please contact the project administrator directly or post a message to the next3-devel mailing list.
