KingBahamut
October 4th, 2005, 04:30 PM
An R&D affiliate of the world's largest telephone company has achieved a stable release of a new Linux file system said to improve reliability over conventional Linux file systems, and offer performance advantages over Solaris's UFS file system. NILFS 1.0 (new implementation of a log-structured file system) is available now from NTT Labs (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone's Cyber Space Laboratories).
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9521569196.html
Log-structured filesystems write down all data in a continuous log-like format that is only appended to, never overwritten. The approach is said to reduce seek times, as well as minimizing the kind of data loss that occurs with conventional Linux filesystems.
What are the implications here? I find this concept to be if anything interesting. Is it a possible replacement for reiser , ext, or xfs...probably not. But the implications in how it functions might present other possibilities in the way a file system functions.
Of course the obvious question that comes to mind is , what happens when it gets to the end?
External Links
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9521569196.html
Log-structured filesystems write down all data in a continuous log-like format that is only appended to, never overwritten. The approach is said to reduce seek times, as well as minimizing the kind of data loss that occurs with conventional Linux filesystems.
What are the implications here? I find this concept to be if anything interesting. Is it a possible replacement for reiser , ext, or xfs...probably not. But the implications in how it functions might present other possibilities in the way a file system functions.
Of course the obvious question that comes to mind is , what happens when it gets to the end?