Old News

• NILFS utilities 2.2.11 was released. A maintenance release that fixes two bugs related to mount table parsing. One of these is an important one that fixes an issue where lscp and other tools would cause an error if the mount point path name contains characters such as spaces. For details, please see nilfs-utils 2.2.11 release (or commits).
  -- Apr 3, 2024 JST.
• NILFS utilities 2.2.10 was released. A maintenance release that includes a wide variety of bug and issue fixes, such as a bug that some segments are not reclaimed by GC after roll forward recovery, an issue of nilfs-resize failing to shrinking nearly empty file systems, unmount failure after remount, and so forth. For details, please see nilfs-utils 2.2.10 release (or commits).
  -- Mar 4, 2024 JST.
• Released important updates to standalone kernel modules for RHEL 7-9 clones (AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CentOS Streams and CentOS 7). If you are using these modules, we recommend replacing them with the latest version. For details, please see nilfs2-kmod9 releases (or ChangeLog, commits), nilfs2-kmod8 releases (or ChangeLog, commits), nilfs2-kmod7 releases (or ChangeLog, commits).
  -- Feb 11, 2024 JST.
• Published nilfs2-kmod9, a standalone kernel module for RHEL 9 clones. Available for AlmaLinux 9, Rocky Linux 9 and CentOS Stream 9. For details, please see the repository, ChangeLog file, or commit logs.
  -- Oct 18, 2022 JST.
• Published nilfs2-kmod8, a standalone kernel module for RHEL 8 clones. Available for AlmaLinux 8, Rocky Linux 8 and CentOS Stream 8. For details, please see the repository, ChangeLog file, or commit logs.
  -- Oct 13, 2022 JST.
• NILFS utilities 2.2.9 was released. A maintenance release that includes fixes for build issues in recent environments. Fix issues with Autoconf-2.70 and later, warnings with gcc-8, etc.
  -- Jun 20, 2022 JST.
• NILFS utilities 2.2.8 was released. A maintenance release with some fixes. Fix some build issues and minor bugs in mkfs.nilfs2.
  -- Aug 20, 2019 JST.
• nilfs2-kmod7 version 1.1.2 was released. Fix a race condition bug that causes file system corruption. For details, please see ChangeLog file or commit logs.
  -- Nov 18, 2017 JST.
• nilfs2-kmod6 version 1.1.2 was released. Fix a race condition bug that causes file system corruption. For details, please see ChangeLog file or commit logs.
  -- Nov 18, 2017 JST.
• We moved the project home to nilfs.sourceforge.io to enable https access. All accesses to the old domain (https://nilfs.sourceforge.net/) are redirected to this new domain.
  -- Nov 10, 2017 JST.
• NILFS utilities 2.2.7 was released. Fix a cleanerd crash issue in certain high concurrency loads that leads the file system to a disk full.
  -- Nov 5, 2017 JST.
• NILFS utilities 2.2.6 was released. A maintenance release with some fixes. Fix issues with libnilfs including potential memory access overrun, etc that can happen when cleanerd, dumpseg command, or nilfs-resize parses corrupted segments.
  -- Oct 10, 2016 JST.
• NILFS utilities 2.2.5 was released. Fix various issues that happen when the system time is changed to earlier time or future.
  -- Sep 4, 2016 JST.
• nilfs2-kmod6 version 1.1.1 was released. Back-port fixes including a potential kernel crash issue. For details, please see ChangeLog file or commit logs.
  -- Jul 23, 2016 JST.
• nilfs2-kmod7 version 1.1.1 was released. Back-port fixes including a potential kernel crash issue. For details, please see ChangeLog file or commit logs.
  -- Jul 23, 2016 JST.
• NILFS utilities 2.2.4 was released. A maintenance release with minor fixes. Fix missing initialization in libnilfs and a bug of cleaner start-up library, update checkpatch script, and so forth.
  -- Apr 27, 2016 JST.
• nilfs2-kmod6 version 1.1 was released. Back-port fixes including ones to improve decrease of available disk space related to aging of DAT metadata file. For details, please see ChangeLog file or commit logs.
  -- Nov 8, 2015 JST.
• nilfs2-kmod7 version 1.1 was released. Back-port fixes including ones to improve decrease of available disk space related to aging of DAT metadata file. For details, please see ChangeLog file or commit logs.
  -- Nov 8, 2015 JST.
• We opened nilfs.osdn.jp as a mirror site of nilfs.sourceforge.net.
  -- Oct 17, 2015 JST.
• Version 1.0 of nilfs2-kmod7, the stand-alone kernel module supporting CentOS 7, was released. Back-port improvements from the latest mainline kernel, including improved performance of checkpoint list output (lscp) on aged file systems. Also, support build for vanilla kernels v3.10+ and v4.0. For details, please see ChangeLog file or commit logs.
  -- Apr 19, 2015 JST.
• Version 1.0 of nilfs2-kmod6, the stand-alone kernel module supporting CentOS 6, was released. Back-ported improvements from the latest mainline kernel, including improved performance of checkpoint list output (lscp) on aged file systems. For details, please see ChangeLog file or commit logs.
  -- Apr 19, 2015 JST.
• nilfs2-kmod7 v0.1.5, an updated kernel module supporting CentOS 7.1, was released. For details, please see ChangeLog file or commit logs.
  -- Apr 5, 2015 JST.
• Kernel module for CentOS 7 was updated. Fix a deadlock issue during recovery at mount time and so forth. For details, please see ChangeLog file or commit logs.
  -- Mar 13, 2015 JST.
• NILFS utilities 2.2.3 was released. Fix potential leak of nilfs library and an issue that lscp command takes too long to output checkpoint list in the reverse direction.
  -- Feb 15, 2015 JST.
• Kernel modules for CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 were updated. Fix a deadlock issue of segment constructor (CentOS 7 kmod only) and a race issue in inode allocation related to nfsd (both kmods). For details, please see corresponding ChangeLog files (CentOS 6, CentOS 7) or commit logs (CentOS 6, CentOS 7).
  -- Feb 7, 2015 JST.
• Kernel modules for CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 were updated. Fix a data integrity issue related to sync() and umount() system calls, etc. For details, please see corresponding ChangeLog files (CentOS 6, CentOS 7) or commit logs (CentOS 6, CentOS 7).
  -- Oct 19, 2014 JST.
• Kernel modules for CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 were updated. Fix a critical data loss issue with mmap(). For details, please see corresponding ChangeLog files (CentOS 6, CentOS 7) or commit logs (CentOS 6, CentOS 7).
  -- Sep 27, 2014 JST.
• NILFS utilities 2.2.2 was released. Fix an issue of mount.nilfs2 program that is causing failure of cleanerd's invocation under systemd 216+.
  -- Sep 19, 2014 JST.
• As we announced previously, we have fully moved the NILFS project site to nilfs.sourceforge.net. The prior address "www.nilfs.org" will be unavailable shortly. Please refer to nilfs.sourceforge.net hereafter.
  -- Sep 2, 2014 JST.
• NILFS utilities 2.2.1 was released. Adjust default GC parameters to make SET_SUINFO ioctl more effective for reducing relocation of static data. Also, fix some build problems, a few bugs related to error output of tools, and typos in messages, manpages, source files, etc.
  -- Aug 23, 2014 JST.
• We released standalone kernel module for CentOS 7. Please see README file and ChangeLog.
  -- Jul 9, 2014 JST.
• We updated nilfs2-kmod (version 0.6.0 was released). It is standalone kernel module for CentOS 6 and other RHEL 6 clones. For details, please see README file and ChangeLog. For RPM packages, please see NILFS for CentOS page.
  -- Apr 20, 2014 JST.
• NILFS utilities 2.2.0 was released. Include SET_SUINFO ioctl support, which helps to reduce unfruitful segment cleaning, and lssu command is enhanced to help analysis of the ratio of in-used blocks for every segment.
  -- Apr 8, 2014 JST.
• We moved nilfs project site to nilfs.sourceforge.net. nilfs.org is still available as an alias for transitional purpose, but it is deprecated.
  -- Feb 25, 2014 JST.