Wout Mertens writes:
FWIW, btrfs and ZFS also do non destructive writes, they're Copy on Write.
As a bonus you get unlimited instant snapshots and lots of other wonderful
things.
I prefer btrfs as it has more of a desktop focus and feature set as well as
being in the kernel, but
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Tim Barbour t...@categorical.net wrote:
One nice property of NILFS is that every write results in a new checkpoint,
which makes it very cheap to check whether a filesystem has been modified
(other than via low-level disk-editing).
On btrfs you can look at the
Wout Mertens writes:
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Tim Barbour t...@categorical.net wrote:
One nice property of NILFS is that every write results in a new checkpoint,
which makes it very cheap to check whether a filesystem has been modified
(other than via low-level disk-editing).
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
FWIW, btrfs and ZFS also do non destructive writes, they're Copy on Write.
As a bonus you get unlimited instant snapshots and lots of other wonderful
things.
I prefer btrfs as it has more of a desktop focus and feature set as well as
being in the kernel, but ZFS is more mature.
Wout.
On Oct 5,
Nicolas Pierron writes:
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.
Ouch! I missed that bit. I
aszlig writes:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 09:08:41PM +1000, Tim Barbour wrote:
The most serious problem is that NILFS2 needs to update /etc/mtab when
mounting a filesystem, so that it can store information about the
[...]
I don't have any experience with NILFS2 yet, but you might want to
On 09/30/2014 12:08 PM, Tim Barbour 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
Good morning,
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:29:12PM +0100, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
Looks to me that all the scary-looking block in the blivet package does
is replace hardcoded paths with paths to the nix-store that nix provides
it with, a common practice. I think if you build and try to run the
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 09:08:41PM +1000, Tim Barbour wrote:
The most serious problem is that NILFS2 needs to update /etc/mtab when
mounting a filesystem, so that it can store information about the
nilfs_cleanerd process associated with the mounted filesystem. If it cannot
write to /etc/mtab,
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