F20 Self Contained Change: Snapshot and Rollback Tool

[Colin Walters]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> 
wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
Exactly, I think block/filesystem level storage are potential 
complements.

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.

Also, remember than on an OSTree system, /home is just a symlink to 
/var/home - *all* local mutable state lives in /var.


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/attachments/20140307/4b261ce7/attachment.html>