Module Name: src
Committed By: pgoyette
Date: Wed Jun 1 11:56:49 UTC 2016
Modified Files:
src/sbin/mount_nilfs: mount_nilfs.8
Log Message:
Improved documentation of mount_nilfs, from PR bin/46730
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Index: src/sbin/mount_nilfs/mount_nilfs.8
diff -u src/sbin/mount_nilfs/mount_nilfs.8:1.2 src/sbin/mount_nilfs/mount_nilfs.8:1.3
--- src/sbin/mount_nilfs/mount_nilfs.8:1.2 Sat Jul 18 17:07:12 2009
+++ src/sbin/mount_nilfs/mount_nilfs.8 Wed Jun 1 11:56:49 2016
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: mount_nilfs.8,v 1.2 2009/07/18 17:07:12 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: mount_nilfs.8,v 1.3 2016/06/01 11:56:49 pgoyette Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2008, 2009 Reinoud Zandijk
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
.\"
.\" <<Id: LICENSE,v 1.2 2000/06/14 15:57:33 cgd Exp>>
.\"
-.Dd July 13, 2009
+.Dd June 1, 2016
.Dt MOUNT_NILFS 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@
.Ar special
.Ar node
.Sh DESCRIPTION
+NILFS is a log-structured file system designed to support fast
+writing, fast recovery times, live snapshots, concurrent read-only
+snapshot mounts, and live file system resizing. Its inodes are
+managed using B-trees.
+.Pp
The
.Nm
command attaches the NILFS file system residing on the specified
@@ -75,6 +80,24 @@ If not set, the user's current time zone
.Xr fstab 5 ,
.Xr mount 8 ,
.Xr umount 8 ,
+.Xr mount_lfs 8 ,
.Xr vnconfig 8
-.Sh NOTES
-NILFS is a file system developped by NTT and is currently in version 2.
+.Sh HISTORY
+NILFS is a file system developped by NTT and released in 2005 for
+Linux. Version 2 is available since 2009.
+This cleanroom implementation was written by
+.An -nosplit
+.An Reinoud Zandijk
+for NetBSD in 2009, and has first been released as part of NetBSD 6.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+This implementation of NILFS was written by
+.An Reinoud Zandijk.
+.Sh CAVEATS
+This implementation currently only supports read-only operation.
+See
+.Xr mount_lfs 8
+for an older log-structured file system with write support. Also see
+.Xr wapbl 4
+and
+.Xr mount 8
+for fast journal-based recovery using FFS.
