On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 10:59:54 -0600 Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm very interested in NILFS2 and considering using it as rootfs. I > read some good reviews and seems to perform okay in benchmarks. The > automatic checkpoints/snapshots sounds like it could be useful. (I'm > thinking especially to see prior versions of files in /etc for > example.) > > Have any of you used NILFS2 and have any failures or success to > report? > > I had some issues with NILFS2. It sometimes "breaks" and still has no checking-repairing utility. I never lost my data, but garbage collector couldn't work. Such things happen rarely, but may be dangerous in production.