NAME
mount_nilfs —
mount a NILFS file
system
SYNOPSIS
mount_nilfs |
[-c
checkpoint]
[-o
options]
[-t
gmtoff] special
node |
DESCRIPTION
NILFS is a log-structured file system designed to support fast writing, fast
recovery times, live snapshots, concurrent read-only snapshot mounts, and live
file system resizing. Its inodes are managed using B-trees.
The
mount_nilfs command attaches the NILFS file system
residing on the specified
special device node on the
location indicated with
node.
-
-
- -c
checkpoint
- Select the checkpoint number
checkpoint to be mounted instead of the default last
one.
-
-
- -o
options
- Use the specified mount options as
specified in mount(8).
-
-
- -t
gmtoff
- Set the time zone offset (in seconds) from UTC to
gmtoff, with positive values indicating east of the
Prime Meridian. If not set, the user's current time zone will be
used.
SEE ALSO
mount(2),
vnd(4),
fstab(5),
mount(8),
mount_lfs(8),
umount(8),
vnconfig(8)
HISTORY
NILFS is a file system developped by NTT and released in 2005 for Linux. Version
2 is available since 2009. This cleanroom implementation was written by
Reinoud Zandijk for
NetBSD in
2009, and has first been released as part of
NetBSD 6.
AUTHORS
This implementation of NILFS was written by
Reinoud
Zandijk.
CAVEATS
This implementation currently only supports read-only operation. See
mount_lfs(8) for an older
log-structured file system with write support. Also see
wapbl(4) and
mount(8) for fast journal-based
recovery using FFS.