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Our Papers

• 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 portal
• 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]

Documents

• Technical note, the Nilfs version 1: overview. (in English) [PDF]

Online Articles

• NILFSv2 is introduced on NETWORKWORLD Sep 6, 2007: Emerging Linux filesystems

Related Projects / Implementations

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/

LogFS -- a scalable flash filesystem

http://logfs.org/logfs/

Related Information

Log-structured File System

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_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.

Useful Tools

Git User's Manual (for version 1.5.3 or newer)

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html

Iozone Filesystem Benchmark

http://www.iozone.org/