There is no comparison. NILFS provides *continuous* snaphots, so you can inspect and rollback changes as needed.
It does without a performance penalty compared to other logging filesystems.
And without using additional space forever. The backlog rotates forward continuously.
It's a really unique feature that makes a lot of sense for desktop use, where you might want to recover files that were created and deleted after a short time.
>It's a really unique feature that makes a lot of sense for desktop us
Sounds like it could serve as a basis for a Linux implementation of something like Apple Time Machine.
With 'httm', a few of us are already living in that bright future: https://github.com/kimono-koans/httm