Back to work !

[Pradeep P. <pp...@ee...>]

Hello folks,
   How's everyone doing? Have been taking it easy after the non-stop
working days, and I think I am refreshed enough to re-plug into the
matrix. There are some interesting developments about another logfs
almost concurrently developed by a group from Nippon. They recently
posted a message to the vfs-devel list, which I have added to the end of
this mail. I am in touch with the authors, and so far they seem to be
interested in merging. I will have a look at their code when I get some
time.

Pradeep

-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: am...@os...
To: lin...@vg...
Cc: pp...@ee..., ni...@os...
Subject: NILFS: the New Implementation of a Log-structured File System
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:20:26 +0900 (JST)

Hello,

We are developing an LFS for Linux 2.6, named Nilfs (the New
Implementation of a Log-structured File System).  We implemented NILFS
using modern technology, for example, file and inode blocks are
managed by B-trees, internal data is processed in 64 bit wide word
size.  The NILFS also supports snapshots.  The snapshots are
automatically hold without any explicit requests, snapshot can be mounted
as a read-only file system.

The latest version is available on the NILFS WEB site  http://www.nilfs.org/
Comments are welcome!

Thank you!

AMAGAI Yoshiji
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
NTT Cyber Space Laboratories
Open Source Software Computing Project
Kernel Team

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