PRIMARY AUTHORS AND MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS TO NILFS-UTILS

Authors who worked or are working at labs of NTT Corporation:
* Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
- Primary maintainer (02/2008-Present)
- Implemented mkfs.nilfs2, mount.nilfs2
- Enhanced snapshot/checkpoint tools, cleanerd, and libraries.
- Wrote nilfs-resize.
- Wrote nilfs-clean, libnilfscleaner library.
- Fixed many bugs
- Wrote man pages
- Initial development

* Koji Sato
- Primary designer of nilfs2 garbage collector
- Implemented cleanerd, nilfs library, and snapshot/checkpoint tools
- Wrote autoconf files
- Initial development

* Naruhiko Kamimura
- Fixed libnilfs so that it follows symlink
- Enhanced lscp to allow specifying range of checkpoints
- Enhanced lssu to allow specifying range of segments

* Seiji Kihara <kihara.seiji@lab.ntt.co.jp>
- Maintainer of RPM packages of nilfs-utils and nilfs2 standalone modules
- Initial development

* Yoshiji Amagai
- Initial development

* Hisashi Hifumi
- Initial development

* Satoshi Moriai
- Initial development

Other contributors:
* Andreas Rohner <andreas.rohner@gmx.net>
Feb 7, 2014: shutcut for certain GC operations
    - add NILFS_IOCTL_SET_SUINFO ioctl support
    - add optimized version of nilfs_xreclaim_segment
    - and so forth.

* Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
Dec 21, 2011: bunch of fixes and cleanups including:
    - corrected error code propagation of umount.nilfs2 (libmount version)
    - improved error message for permission failure of rmcp command
    - sanity check for positive checkpoint number
    - proper parser routine use for 64-bit integer inputs
    - removal of kern_compat.h
    - and so forth.
Jan 5, 2012: add -h command line option to mkfs.nilfs2
Sep 1, 2014: lscp: always show snapshots, even if marked minor
Sep 1, 2014: mount.nilfs2(libmount ver.): don't base GC startup on-mtab context

* David Arendt <admin@prnet.org>
March 29, 2010: added cleaning functions based on the number of free segments
March 29, 2010: added mount option to disable garbage collection

* David Smid <david@unity-linux.org>
December 3, 2009: introduced pp (protection period) mount option

* dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
March 6, 2011: support relative pathnames in command line of nilfs_cleanerd

* Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@member.fsf.org>
April 19, 2014: install nilfs-* executables to /usr/bin

* Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
February 13, 2010: fix build against newer glibc

* Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
November 9, 2009: expose struct nilfs_btree_node
September 3, 2010: enhanced super block read/write routines
September 3, 2010: implemented nilfs-tune
November 19, 2010: replaced crc32 implementation

* Matteo Frigo <athena@fftw.org>
September 11, 2010: compare device number for mount check

* Hitoshi Mitake <mitake.hitoshi@gmail.com>
January 1, 2014: cleanerd: adjust OOM killer
January 4, 2014: mkfs.nilfs2: statically check size of important structures
January 6, 2014: rework daemonize() of cleanerd
    - cleanerd: ignore nofork option
    - cleanerd: call _exit(2) twice for ensuring not being a session leader
    - mount: don't pass -n option to cleanerd

* Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
July 24, 2012: add --print option to mkcp

* Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>
March 25, 2013: mkfs.nilfs2 should check presence of NILFS2 volume on device

And this software is realized and maintained by many other
contributions and helps.
