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Linux Gains Lossless File System

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-was-sick-of-my-old-lossyfs-anyway dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "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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  1. Linux files systems suck ass.. by mcdade · · Score: 0, Troll

    So what are the choices? ext2/ext3 which are slow, reiserfs which sucks ass when it breaks..

    I noticed how they compare the new filesystem to Sun's UFS, which isn't the bomb.. Look into ZFS from Sun, if they ever release it! We saw a demo on this almost a year ago now, suppose to be released with Solaris 10, but wasn't ready. We were so hyped about this after we lost a shitload of disk arrays under veritas due to hardware issues. This shouldn't happen under ZFS, cause if you have a mirror, it would know that the data being written out was writing corrupt data to the mirror and automagically fix it.

    seriously .. check out ZFS.

    For the guy posting about FreeBSD, with background fsck.. it's nice.. have yet to loose something on a FreeBSD box due to inproper shutdowns.. (power failures)