[Cialug] "NILFS: A Filesystem to Make SSDs Scream"

[Todd Walton]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Nathan Stien <nathanism at gmail.com> wrote:
> "NILFS2 (New Implementation of a Log-Structured File System Version 2) is a
> very promising new log-structured file system that has continuous snapshots
> and versioning of the entire file system. This means that you can recover
> files that were deleted or unintentionally modified as well as perform
> backups at any time from a snapshot without a performance penalty normally
> associated with creating snapshots. In addition, there is evidence that
> NILFS has extremely good performance on SSD drives."

I am an uneducated man on the ways of filesystems. But I have a
question.  Wouldn't "snapshots" be killer for SSDs?

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Todd