NILFS is a log-structured file system supporting versioning of the entire file system and continuous snapshotting which allows users to even restore files mistakenly overwritten or destroyed just a few seconds ago.

This site provides related resources of the NILFS filesystem.

• NILFS utilities 2.0.19 was released. added uhelper support to mount.nilfs2 so that udisks/palimpsest can control nilfs2 partitions. And, updated man pages and header files to follow recent kernels (upto 2.6.35).
  -- Aug 9, 2010 JST.
• NILFS 2.0.20 was released. backported several minor fixes to make the module package more stable. This is a maintenance release for old kernels.
  -- Jun 27, 2010 JST.
• We have a planned power outage from May 28 10:30 a.m. to May 31 0:30 a.m. UTC. nilfs.org will temporarily stop. Please visit mirror site during the period. Thank you.
  -- May 24, 2010 JST.
• NILFS utilities 2.0.18 was released. Allowed to suspend garbage collector depending on the amount of free space on the device. The new retention policy is now applied by default (the previous behavior is still selectable). Thanks to David Arendt.
  -- Apr 10, 2010 JST.
• NILFS utilities 2.0.17 was released. This is a follow-up release to fix wrong insertion of the GPLv3 COPYING file.
  -- Mar 13, 2010 JST.
• NILFS 2.0.19 and NILFS utilities 2.0.16 were released. Backported several bug-fixes, mount option updates, and improvements that shorten mount time after unclean unmount. The changes of nilfs-utils include manpage updates, a build fix for newer glibc, and a mount option to set protection_period.
  -- Mar 13, 2010 JST.
• NILFS utilities 2.0.15 was released. A stable release to take in trivial changes which had left since the previous release. No functional changes are made.
  -- Dec 31, 2009 JST.
• We will freeze the current nilfs mailing list at the beginning of January 2010. linux-nilfs mailing list is now available at vger.kernel.org instead. Please see ''about stop of the old nilfs mailing list''. Thank you.
  -- Dec 19, 2009 JST.

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