• HOWTO

So how do I get started on LogFS?

Using LogFS is not particularly hard. Just follow these steps:

• Create a LogFS-capable kernel
  Download the latest stable kernel from kernel.org and apply the LogFS patches. Configure, compile and install the kernel as usual.

• Boot the new kernel.

• [Optional] Create an MTD device.
  If you don't know what an MTD device is, please take a look at infradead.org.

• Download mklogfs
  You can find this on the patches page as well. For platforms other than i386 you have to compile it from source.

• Create a new filesystem
  $ mklogfs /dev/mtd0
  $ mklogfs /dev/sda
  $ mklogfs logfs.image
  Mklogfs work on either mtdchar devices, block devices or regular files. The latter is useful for qemu disk images, for example.

• Mount the filesystem.
  For MTD use a command line like this one:
  $ mount mtd0 /mnt -t logfs
  Or the equivalent for a block device:
  $ mount /dev/hdb /mnt -t logfs