Using NILFS2 without root

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 09:42:52 +0000

NILFS2 is a fairly obscure filesystem that has a very cool feature derived from its design: constant snapshotting.

But is seems that very few people use it in a desktop setting, and thus few tools exist to use it, compared to BTRFS or LVM snapshots.

Using it to create and mount snapshots requires root access, and is not practical.

I created a binary and helper script to facilitate the everyday use of a NILFS2 filesystem.

nip.io alternative

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:49:48 +0000

nip.io alternative, useful for internal networks