On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> wrote:<br>
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I don't think that's accurate. OSTree doesn't touch /home from what I
remember. It is only concerned with /usr and to as minimal a degree
as possible /etc. People likely still want snapshot and rollback for
their actual _data_ as well.</div></blockquote><br><div>Exactly, I think block/filesystem level storage are potential complements.</div><div><br></div><div>Many competently-maintained systems already have backup solutions for data though. In fact, Anaconda defaults to having it on a separate partition in some configurations precisely so that one can just blow away the root partition and preserve /home.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, remember than on an OSTree system, /home is just a symlink to /var/home - *all* local mutable state lives in /var.</div><div><br></div>