Hello all, I wanted to know if NILFS filesystem is ready to general purpose. I am going to make a backup partition (containing important files from general purpose FS on second HD) and I don't know what FS to use on it. Log-based filesystem is considered right there for me because of COW semantics and that no previous data would be loss in case of write susped/error. I thought about btrfs as well, but AFAIK it's even less stable than NILFS and is not COW to that extent that NILFS is (using NILFS I can mount exatly what would be mounted few days/writes ago with cp= mount option, in case no physical error occured). There are many adventages for using NILFS for that purpose, but stability is the greatest factor (it's all about my data!). So I want to know what do you think about using this fresh filesystem - is it good idea or have I to use a more stable solution, like ext2/reiserfs or something else? Is log-structured filesystem more secure than regular one (which I think it is), or is more known and maintained one better? Thanks for any answers :) I hope I'll get good respone in new year time :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
