If you're looking for a flexible filesystem, try btrfs. It is quite nice. It still needs some help in the performance department, but given a recent Linux kernel (say, 3.2) it works wonderfully. I use its snapshots and COW functionality the most.
The only downside to it is that it sometimes is slowish when I do many writes in a short period of time. Also, fsync() still takes awhile, so applications that use it liberally, such as dpkg, can run very slow. Things which use SQLite also suffer under heavy write loads. For that reason alone, I wouldn't yet use it on a database server. I would use it on a read-mostly file server, however. -- Sent from my Ice Cream Sandwich-powered HTC G2 Please excuse any typos. On Mar 2, 2012 12:03 PM, "Paul Hartman" <[email protected]> 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? > >
