Inter-WG coordination: Stable application runtimes - SCC

[Chris Murphy]

On Jan 12, 2014, at 1:51 PM, Alek Paunov <alex at declera.com> wrote:

> 
> Once we apply FS snapshotting, combined with the SCC NTHs above, there
> are at least two appealing use-cases:
> 
> - reusing one base e.g. F20 server container image for both the host and
>  the incompatible containers (e.g. when one application requires nodejs
>  0.8 and another nodejs 0.10)
> 
> - easy testbed for resolving the upgrade path for an existing, possibly
>  non "pure Fedora" server with care about the deployed services.

I agree, there are quite a few use cases for file system snapshots. Do the snapshots need to be bootable? 


Chris Murphy