NILFS
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NILFS or NILFS2 (New Implementation of a Log-structured File System) is a log-structured file system implementation for the Linux kernel. It was developed by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) CyberSpace Laboratories and a community from all over the world. NILFS was released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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Quick Facts Developer(s), Full name ...
Developer(s) | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Cyber Space Laboratories |
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Full name | New Implementation of a Log-structured File System |
Introduced | 2005; 19 years ago (2005) with Linux kernel 2.6.13 |
Structures | |
File allocation | B-tree |
Limits | |
Max volume size | 8 EiB |
Max file size | 8 EiB |
Max filename length | 255 bytes |
Features | |
Dates recorded | atime (planned) |
Date resolution | 64-bit on-disk timestamps |
Attributes | POSIX, with plans for extended attributes |
File system permissions | POSIX, with plans for ACLs[1] |
Transparent compression | No |
Transparent encryption | No |
Copy-on-write | Yes |
Other | |
Supported operating systems | Linux kernel, (ReadOnly for NetBSD) |
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