Log-structured file system: Difference between revisions

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* [[Log-structured File System (BSD)|BSD-LFS]], an implementation by [[Margo Seltzer]] was added to 4.4BSD, and was later ported to [[386BSD]]. It lacked support for snapshots. It was removed from FreeBSD and OpenBSD, but still lives on in [[NetBSD]].

* [[Plan 9 from Bell Labs|Plan 9]]'s [[Fossil (file system)|Fossil]] file system is also log-structured and supports snapshots.

* [[NILFS]] is a log-structured file system implementation for [[Linux]] by [[NTT/Verio]] which supports snapshots. As of May 2007, it is still in [[software release life cycle#Alpha|alpha]] and not ready for production use.

* [[LinLogFS]] (formerly dtfs) and LFS ([http://logfs.sourceforge.net/ http://logfs.sourceforge.net/]) are log-structured file system implementations for Linux. The latter was part of [[Google Summer of Code|Google Summer of Code 2005]]. Both projects have been abandoned.

* [http://aiya.ms.mff.cuni.cz/lfs LFS] is another log-structured file system for Linux developed by Charles University, Prague. It was to include support for snapshots and indexed directories, but development has since ceased.