On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Tim Barbour <t...@categorical.net> wrote:
> NILFS2 is a log-structured filesystem which is now in the Linux kernel source
> tree, and supported by GRUB2. It should appeal to NixOS users because it
> avoids destructive update ("changing" a file produces a new version of the
> file).
>
> I have installed NixOS with all filesystems on NILFS2, but encountered some
> problems along the way.Looking at the details of NILFS2, I saw that it does a linear search within directories. This is far from ideal for the /nix/store as this directory is HUGE. This might have a noticeable cost at the start-up of a computer / programs. -- Nicolas Pierron http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasbpierron - http://nbp.name/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
