F20 Self Contained Change: Snapshot and Rollback Tool

[Reindl Harald]

Am 07.03.2014 14:31, schrieb Josh Boyer:
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
>>> I this project dead?  I'm casting about to tools to manage lvm snapshots and roller-derby sounded promising.  Any other tools out there?
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> 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

i don't think people *really* like to restore a snapshot of /usr
without /var/lib/rpm if they only know what that means at the end

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