Linux 2.6.30 Gets New Filesystems

Article Source : Desktop Linux

Linus Torvalds (pictured) announced Linux kernel 2.6.30, adding several new filesystems, including the NILFS2 log-structured filesystem. Linux 2.6.30 enhancements include a local caching layer for NFS data, the RDS server cluster communications protocol, the Tomoyo security module, and support for LZMA and BZIP2 compression algorithms.

The 2.6.30 release arrives less than three months after Linux kernel 2.6.29, which added a wide variety of driver and header updates, WiMAX support, the embedded-oriented Squashfs filesystem, and a preliminary new Btrfs filesystem. The new kernel release further feeds Linux developers' insatiable appetite for new filesystems.

The new NILFS2 treats the whole disk as a consecutive list of blocks (or "log"), and never rewrites blocks. As a result, all modifications and creations are converted into sequential operations, which are said to be faster. Other NILFS2 improvements are said to include the ability to offer a more coherent historical view of operations, called "continuus snapshotting," enabling users to restore files that have been mistakenly destroyed only a few seconds previously.


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  1. A great addition to the linux shell to help recover accidentally erased data.

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