long running sessions, restarts, etc.

[drago01]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:

> The live replace files on disk part of upgrade is also problematic, and is
> actually the most broken thing relating to updates we have right now.  For
> this reason among others I think we should move to installing updates
> immediately before logout/reboot.

We could just do:

1) switch to brtfs
2) have a separte /home by default

When updating:
1) create a snapshot of /
2) mount it
3) update stuff there
4) prompt for reboot
5) on reboot switch to the new snapshot

We could even keep the last one for rollback reasons.