Adventurous yet Safety-Minded
Przemek Klosowski
przemek.klosowski at nist.gov
Thu Mar 11 22:24:02 UTC 2010
On 03/10/2010 07:54 AM, Alexander Kahl wrote:
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> On 03/10/2010 01:06 PM, Steven I Usdansky wrote:
>> Instead of worrying about the occasional brokenness caused by an update to a stable release, how about focusing on a mechanism to easily recover from it?
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> There is no real recovery for traditional package systems as each change
> on a package (install, update, remove etc.) changes the state of the
> system as a whole,
But, but, the BTRFS-based rollback just rolls the entire disk back to
the state before an upgrade. It's a filesystem-based snapshot. What
could go wrong with that? :)
Of course BTRFS is still kind-of experimental...
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