Dear folks, i'm currently looking at getting NiLFS writing support. Since the linux adoptation of NiLFS seems to be waning I'm contemplating an incompatible change to make it more efficient and less errorprone wuthout losing its continous snapshot feature which is imho one of the major advantages of NiLFS. One could call it NiLFS3 though this is just a worktitle. Compatibility with NiLFS2 could be kept but at a conplexity cost that might not be justifyable.
My question is now, would you support such a move or would you rather keep it compatible with the NiLFS2 implementation in Linux. I don't know how many of you use this read compatibility right now or would like to keep it. Since disc or device exchange is getting more rare these days due to fast interconnection it mught be less relevant to keep the compatibility since linux also shares FAT, NTFS, NFS and ext2(3?4?) file systems. That said, i'm trying to get one if the origional developers of NiLFS2 on Linux to contemplate to port the changes into the linux version too but i haven't had a reply yet. Please do share your views with me and i'd really like feature requests too! With regards, Reinoud Zandijk