[arch-general] NILFS: A filesystem designed to minimize the likelyhood of data loss

[mike lojkovic]

As far as I'm aware BTRFS would be a better choice. Believe it's getting
close to release.

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Alexander Rath <alexander.rath at posteo.net>
wrote:

> Am Montag, 9. Jänner 2017 17:20:49 CET schrieb Sean Greenslade:
>
>> On January 9, 2017 7:39:26 AM PST, Alexander Rath <
>> alexander.rath at posteo.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> I'd like to share a link to this description/tutorial about NILFS2:
>>> https://forum.manjaro.org/t/nilfs-a-filesystem-designed-to-
>>> minimize-the-likelyhood-of-data-loss/15091
>>>
>>> Did anybody try to install Arch on a NILFS2-formatted partition?
>>>
>>
>> Have you tried it? VMs are quick and easy to set up, so you can easily
>> answer this question yourself.
>>
>> A quick Google search tells me grub2 apparently has a nilfs module, so my
>> guess would be yes it's possible.
>>
>> --Sean
>>
>
> Well, I'm using it already on a daily basis with Manjaro for my root, boot
> and home partition (SSD) and I wrote the tutorial for Manjaro. Now I wanted
> to know, if there are any Arch users actually using NILFS (like me on
> Manjaro) or people who at least tried to install Arch on this fs.
>
> -- Alexander
>