RFC: Btrfs snapshots feature for F13
Chris Ball
cjb at laptop.org
Tue Nov 17 21:56:02 UTC 2009
Hi,
>> I somewhat read the initial suggestion as trying to implement
>> transactional behavior via snapshot. Just creating one shouldn't
>> hurt.
Ah. Yeah, not at all.
> I fail to understand how a snapshot would differentiate between
> yum related changes and other changes that occur by an otherwise
> normally operating daemon (logs for example).
If someone wanted to use whole-fs snapshots for yum transactions
(which I don't) the way to do it would be to only rollback changes
made to files that are present in either of the RPM manifests.
- Chris.
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Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org>
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