RFC: Btrfs snapshots feature for F13

Alexander Boström abo at root.snowtree.se
Tue Nov 17 18:38:44 UTC 2009


tis 2009-11-17 klockan 09:52 -0500 skrev Chris Ball:

> * Someone on the feature's Talk Page suggests that we should encourage
>   people using anaconda to create a btrfs rootfs separate to their
>   /home, so that they can rollback rootfs snapshots without affecting
>   their homedir.

If you have a single btrfs filesystem with one snapshot from a while
back and one "head", would it be possible for some hypothetical tool to
create a new head which looks like the root from the snapshot but with
the latest /home on top? I mean, without actually copying the files from
the snapshot, just creating a "fake snapshot" that can the be mounted
and writeable. Then you wouldn't need a separate /home.

/abo





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