[Nix-dev] NILFS2, NixOS, nixpart and Blivet

Tim Barbour trb at categorical.net
Mon Oct 6 11:07:20 CEST 2014


Wout Mertens writes:
 > On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Tim Barbour <trb at categorical.net> wrote:
 > 
 > > One nice property of NILFS is that every write results in a new checkpoint,
 > > which makes it very cheap to check whether a filesystem has been modified
 > > (other than via low-level disk-editing).
 > >
 > 
 > On btrfs you can look at the generation:
 > http://www.tummy.com/blogs/2010/11/01/fun-with-btrfs-what-files-have-changed/

Thank you! That looks like what I need.

Tim
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