ESP8266 NodeMCV1 LittleFS workflow?

So what’s the status of this thread. I see that issue support littlefs for upcoming esp8266 arduino core release · Issue #173 · platformio/platform-espressif8266 · GitHub is closed but I can’t make it work. I’ve followed the advice in How to define LittleFS partition, build image and flash it on ESP32? but I still can’t get a LittleFS.bin file generated in my .pio/build/nodemcuv2 directory. The script to build the file is just not running. I’m getting no errors. I’ve got the 2.6.0 version of the platform loaded. What gives? I noticed that the build_board.filesystem does not show up in the project configuration settings. I’m using platformio with CLion. Any help appreciated.