On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Joseph L. Casale <jcasale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>To answer my own question here. The required bits (kernel, lvm, >>device-mapper) appear to be available between F13 and F13-testing. >>Since I'll be reinstalling for F13 I decided to go ahead and install >>the F13 packages in F12 to see what happened. Everything appears to be >>working fine. > > Richard, > That's slick, so what's your procedure, do you just snap the root and > maintain that until you're satisfied or do you boot from a snapshot? >From my research I've found that you can treat the snapshot just like another block device so it is possible to boot to it, however, in the particular case of upgrading Fedora (or another major piece of software) the typical use case is to create the snapshot as a safety measure and upgrade the origin volume. If all goes well you drop the snapshot and go on. If something goes wrong you merge the snapshot back onto the origin and it's like it never happened. The hardest decision to make regarding snapshot volumes is how big to make them. You need to make sure it is big enough to store all the changed bits and a log file. So in the case of upgrading Fedora I would create one as big as a standard install (including any packages you typically add after an install) plus a little bit. You don't want to fill the snapshot volume or it is dropped automatically. Richard -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
