The only reference I have been able to find regarding the use of nilfs2 with omv is a single thread from 3 years ago. 3 years later i'd like to think that some progress on adopting this fs structure has made it's way into omv but it doesn't appear to be the case.
A comment and then a couple questions:
I've been using omv for myself and my customer base for a number of years now. I have found it to be a very capable front end to our NAS servers. Over the last 6 years I've had numerous customers get hit with ransomware. As much as one tries to lock down the environment, you can't prevent an infection from being inadvertently 'invited' in by some unsuspecting user of the local network. The fortunate thing is none of my customers have ever had to pay these ransoms mainly because of a capable backup environment.
The problem that I have is when these types of exploits do hit, the recovery process is long and tedious. Usually multiple servers involved and always attacks on the smb protocol of Microsoft and any machine exposed to it. The use of the nil file system can go a long way, and does, to making recovery pretty much painless and I use this file system for most of my customers now. Unfortunately it means taking omv out of the picture due to non-support. I hate to say it but with our experience, nil is going to win out over omv every time. Thing is, I see a perfect marriage between the two and am wondering why it is not being considered.
So my questions.....
Is nilfs2 being considered for inclusion at all?
If not, what are the impediments to supporting it from omv?
If there are no impediments, is it just a matter of creating a 'plugin'?
If a plugin can be created, are there any 'developers' that would like to assist in such an endeavor?
Thanks in advance for any input on this subject.