Cloning repository

You can get the latest source code of nilfs2 by using the git content tracker,

 $ git clone http://git.nilfs.org/nilfs2-module.git   # (nilfs2 kernel module)
 $ git clone http://git.nilfs.org/nilfs2-utils.git    # (nilfs2 utilities)

These repositories can be updated through git-pull command. For more detail on git, please refer to the following sites.

• http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html
• http://git.or.cz/

Preparations to build nilfs2-utils

Since these repositories don't include any intermediate files, you have to make some preparations before running the configure script for nilfs2-utils:

 $ cd nilfs2-utils
 $ aclocal
 $ autoheader
 $ libtoolize -c --force
 $ automake -a -c
 $ autoconf

The following development packages may be required to do this,

• libtool
• autoconf (-2.6 or later)
• automake

Then, you can build & install tools as usual,

 $ ./configure
 $ make
 $ sudo make install

Feedback and bug reporting

To report bugs or to submit patches, please make use of the following mailing list.

• NILFS users mailing list

Good luck,

NILFS team, NTT.