OS Compatibility
| Distribution | Description |
|---|---|
| Debian | NILFS is available in Debian 5.0 and later (lenny, squeeze, wheezy, and sid). |
| Ubuntu | NILFS is available in Ubuntu 9.10 and later. |
| CentOS | x86 and x86_64 for CentOS 5/6 are available on http://www.nilfs.org. |
| Fedora | Building and installing nilfs-utils-2.1 is required in order to use NILFS in Fedora 14~16. For Fedora 15 and later, user also needs to build NILFS2 kernel module with explained steps. |
| openSUSE | i586 and x86_64 for openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise are available on openSUSE Build Service. |
| Gentoo | NILFS is available in Gentoo Linux. A boot-cd with NILFS is available on PrRescue: http://prrescue.prnet.org/index.php/Main_Page |
| Arch | NILFS is available in Arch Linux. |
| Linux Mint | NILFS is available in Linux Mint. |
NILFS was merged into the Linux kernel 2.6.30. For the 2.6.30 kernel or later, you only need (?may be) to download the utility package on the site http://www.nilfs.org. A separate, BSD licensed implementation, currently with read-only support, is included in NetBSD.
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