F20 Self Contained Change: Snapshot and Rollback Tool

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 6, 2014, at 4:27 PM, Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> wrote:
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>>> Other developers: OS Installer Support for LVM Thin Provisioning
>>> Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
>>> Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
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>>> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/InstallerLVMThinProvisioningSupport
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>> I this project dead?  I'm casting about to tools to manage lvm snapshots and roller-derby sounded promising.  Any other tools out there?
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> There's a recent snapshot/rollback thread on the desktop list that relates to this. LVM thin provisioning support is in the Fedora 20 installer (it fails to produce a bootable system, the post-install fix for which is listed in Fedora 20 common bugs).
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> However, if OSTree is used, then there isn't a hard requirement on either LVM Thin Provisioning or Btrfs.

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.

josh