Re: NILFS2, a log-structured filesystem

Célio Cidral Junior <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.prevayler
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2009/6/15 Klaus Wuestefeld <[email protected]>:
>> This is called "continuous snapshotting" - snapshots of modifications
>> done in all the filesystem at any time are created automatically due
>> to the log-structure design
>
> What does this mean? Could you explain this better?

Not sure I got it right, but I think it means that each change (or set
of changes) in the FS generates a snapshot of its current state.
Seems to me like revisions in an svn repository, if this analogy makes
sense.

Celio.

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