IIRC it is being marked stable in 2.6.35. Stable schmable... works like a treat for me and many others; it's just a possible solution. C Anthony [mobile] On Jul 17, 2010, at 3:46 PM, "Евгений Борисов" <flekst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > BTRFS is not marked stable by developers, so it can not used in > stable > arch. > > 2010/7/17 C Anthony Risinger <anthony@xxxxxxxx> > >> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> On Sat 17 Jul 2010 12:15 -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: >>>> On Jul 17, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist@xxxxxxxxx> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Sat 17 Jul 2010 11:06 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: >>>>>> Oh, I do. I would just prefer to work with the package >>>>>> management >>>>>> framework, not work around it. >>>>> >>>>> I think this is something that hooks could do. It's a feature >>>>> that's >>>>> in brainstorming. Maybe you could help implement it. >>>>> >>>>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Pacman_Hooks >>>> >>>> As a heads up, this (kernel rollbacks) is a planned feature of the >>>> mkinitcpio-btrfs hook in AUR. It will be implemented in one or >>>> more >>>> of about three ways: >>>> >>>> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=778395#p778395 >>>> >>>> You must be using btrfs for / of course. >>> >>> So, that's not something that would work within the package >>> management >>> framework, is it? >> >> no, it would not. it requires you to manually run the proper command >> prior to upgrading. it could be automated by either a pacman hook, >> or >> putting the command in a wrapper script around pacman. there has >> been >> some big interest in rollback from a couple devs, so maybe it will >> make its way into pacman/libalpm official, but idk. >> >> at any rate, it will be a solution to the kernel rollback problem, >> and >> will suffice for some; it's just that it requires a btrfs root. the >> next release will include this functionality, along with a tool to >> work with/create system snapshots (and for use in said wrapper). >> >> C Anthony >>
