Links

Online Articles

• LWN.net November 7, 2012: A NILFS2 score card
• NETWORKWORLD Sep 6, 2007: Emerging Linux filesystems
• LWN.net June 19, 2007: btrfs and NILFS

Benchmarks

• SNIA Storage Developer Conference 2015 (SDC 2015), September 2015: An SMR-aware Append-only File System
• superuser August 26, 2015: Fastest Linux Filesystem on Shingled Disks
• phoronix April 8, 2015: Linux 4.0 Hard Drive Comparison With EXT4 / Btrfs / XFS / NTFS / NILFS2 / ReiserFS
• Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-14-03, Sep 2014: Evaluation of Nilfs2 for Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) Disks
• 2013 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC'13), June 2013: I/O Stack Optimization for Smartphones
• LWN.net December 11, 2012: JFFS2, UBIFS, and the growth of flash storage
• phoronix December 15, 2011: NILFS2 Against Btrfs and EXT4 On Linux 3.2
• phoronix March 09, 2011: Large HDD/SSD Linux 2.6.38 File-System Comparison: Ext3, EXT4, Btrfs, XFS, JFS, ReiserFS, NILFS2
• phoronix June 29, 2009: EXT4, Btrfs, NILFS2 Performance Benchmarks
• USENIX 2008 Linux Storage & Filesystem Workshop (LSF08): About SSD

Related Projects / Presentations

• TimeBrowse: Windows VSS like utility for NILFS2 and Nautilus
• Jiro SEKIBA, Development of NILFS2 software tools, Japan Linux Conference 2010, Nov 2010. (in Japanese) [abstract] [Paper] [Presentation]
• Snapshot-based Backup with Encryption
• PrRescue: Gentoo based rescue CD supporting NILFS2

Our Papers / Presentations / Documents

• Ryusuke Konishi, Utilizing NILFS2 fine-grained snapshots, LinuxCon Japan 2011 Presentation material, June 2011. [Presentation PDF]
• Ryusuke Konishi, The NILFS2 Filesystem: Review and Challenges, Japan Linux Symposium 2009 Presentation material, Oct 2009. [Presentation PDF]
• Koji Sato et al., The Design and Implementation of the NILFS Log-Structured File System, IPSJ Transactions on Advanced Computing System (ACS), Vol.2, No.1, pp.110-122, 2009. (in Japanese) [IPSJ Digital Library]
• Ryusuke Konishi, Filesystem support for Continuous Snapshotting, Ottawa Linux Symposium 2007 BOFS material, June 2007. [Presentation PDF]
• Ryusuke Konishi et al., The Linux implementation of a log-structured file system, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Vol.40, No.3, pp.102-107, 2006. [acm digital library]
• Ryusuke Konishi, Development of a New Log-structured File System for Linux, Technical Note, Oct 2005. [Presentation PDF]
• Yoshiji Amagai et al., Log-structured file system for Linux, Linux Conference 2005, Japan Linux Association, June 2005. (in Japanese) [Paper PDF] [Presentation PDF]
• Yoshiji Amagai et al., Design and Implementation of ``nilfs'', a Log-Structured File System for Linux, IPSJ SIG-OS, OS-99, May 2005. (in Japanese) [PDF]
• Technical note, the Nilfs version 1: overview. (in English) [PDF]

Other Log-structured filesystems

F2FS -- Flash-Friendly File System

https://f2fs.wiki.kernel.org/start

Log-Structured Filesystem for NetBSD

http://www.hhhh.org/perseant/lfs.html

LinLogFS -- A Log-Structured Filesystem For Linux

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/czezatke/lfs.html

LFS: A Log Structured File System for Linux that Supports Snapshots

http://logfs.sourceforge.net/

Log-structured file system for Linux 2.6

http://aiya.ms.mff.cuni.cz/lfs/ (broken link)

LogFS -- a scalable flash filesystem

http://logfs.org/logfs/ (broken link)

Log-structured File System (Wikipedia article)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-structured_file_system

Related Papers

Sprite LFS

Mendel Rosenblum and John K. Ousterhout; The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System, Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on Operating System Principles, pages 1--15, October 1991.

BSD LFS

Margo Seltzer, Keith Bostic, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Carl Staelin, An Implementation of a Log-Structured File System for UNIX, USENIX Winter 1993.

LinLogFS

Christian Czezatke, M. Anton Ertl; LinLogFS - A Log-Structured Filesystem For Linux, USENIX Annual Conference, June 2000.

Elephant file system

D.J. Santry, M.J. Feeley, N.C. Hutchinson, A.C. Veitch, R.W. Carton, J. Ofir. Deciding when to forget in the Elephant file system. Proc. of the 17th ACM symposium on Operating systems principles, 1999.