nilfs-diff experimental branch

[Hugo Pacheco]

Hi everyone,

I have been experimenting with the versioning capabilities of nilfs-tools
and it works beautifully, but I have now started wanting to explore the
hottest features only in the experimental branch, namely nilfs-diff.

I understand that this diff branch has never made it to mainstream, and
probably won't soon, but has anyone succeeded in installing it for a modern
3.x linux kernel? The latest code available at github seems to require
2.6.x.

A more up-to-date picture would be really appreciated.

Thanks,
hugo
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[Ryusuke Konishi]

Hi,

Post by Hugo Pacheco
Hi everyone,
I have been experimenting with the versioning capabilities of nilfs-tools
and it works beautifully, but I have now started wanting to explore the
hottest features only in the experimental branch, namely nilfs-diff.
I understand that this diff branch has never made it to mainstream, and
probably won't soon, but has anyone succeeded in installing it for a modern
3.x linux kernel? The latest code available at github seems to require
2.6.x.
A more up-to-date picture would be really appreciated.

I rebased diff branches and pushed them out to github:

nilfs-utils git://github.com/konis/nilfs-utils.git (diff-v2 branch)
kernel git://github.com/konis/nilfs2.git (diffapi-v2 branch)

These are still experimental and need disk format change.

Regards,
Ryusuke Konishi
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[Hugo Pacheco]

Dear Ryusuke-san,

Thank you for the updated code, this was really what I needed.

I have managed to install it successfully on Ubuntu 14.04 by just
adding CFLAGS='-pthread -lm'.

Using the experimental version with reformatted drives, versioning
works fine but unfortunately calls to chcp and nilfs-diff either don't
do anything or hang indefinitely without any error feedback. I am
sorry for bothering, but do you have any clue of what might be
happening? I made sure to unistall all the non-experimental
nilfs-tools beforehand.

Best,
hugo

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Ryusuke Konishi

Post by Ryusuke Konishi
Hi,

Post by Hugo Pacheco
Hi everyone,
I have been experimenting with the versioning capabilities of nilfs-tools
and it works beautifully, but I have now started wanting to explore the
hottest features only in the experimental branch, namely nilfs-diff.
I understand that this diff branch has never made it to mainstream, and
probably won't soon, but has anyone succeeded in installing it for a modern
3.x linux kernel? The latest code available at github seems to require
2.6.x.
A more up-to-date picture would be really appreciated.

nilfs-utils git://github.com/konis/nilfs-utils.git (diff-v2 branch)
kernel git://github.com/konis/nilfs2.git (diffapi-v2 branch)
These are still experimental and need disk format change.
Regards,
Ryusuke Konishi

[Hugo Pacheco]

I am sorry, but I made the gross mistake of forgetting to recompile
the kernel to your modified version.

A day later, running kernel 3.17 compiled from
https://github.com/konis/nilfs2/tree/diffapi-v2 and nilfs-tools
compiled from https://github.com/konis/nilfs-utils/tree/diff-v2,
everything works.

Thank you,
hugo

Post by Hugo Pacheco
Dear Ryusuke-san,
Thank you for the updated code, this was really what I needed.
I have managed to install it successfully on Ubuntu 14.04 by just
adding CFLAGS='-pthread -lm'.
Using the experimental version with reformatted drives, versioning
works fine but unfortunately calls to chcp and nilfs-diff either don't
do anything or hang indefinitely without any error feedback. I am
sorry for bothering, but do you have any clue of what might be
happening? I made sure to unistall all the non-experimental
nilfs-tools beforehand.
Best,
hugo
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Ryusuke Konishi

Post by Ryusuke Konishi
Hi,

Post by Hugo Pacheco
Hi everyone,
I have been experimenting with the versioning capabilities of nilfs-tools
and it works beautifully, but I have now started wanting to explore the
hottest features only in the experimental branch, namely nilfs-diff.
I understand that this diff branch has never made it to mainstream, and
probably won't soon, but has anyone succeeded in installing it for a modern
3.x linux kernel? The latest code available at github seems to require
2.6.x.
A more up-to-date picture would be really appreciated.

nilfs-utils git://github.com/konis/nilfs-utils.git (diff-v2 branch)
kernel git://github.com/konis/nilfs2.git (diffapi-v2 branch)
These are still experimental and need disk format change.
Regards,
Ryusuke Konishi

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