Well now that btrfs has been mentioned ..... :) Are we planning to adopt it as default soon as upstream releases stable? or possibly just shoot for alternative if default would be too ambitious? -Adam 2009/3/26 Jonathan Dieter <jdieter@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 14:30 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: >> >> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Neal Becker wrote: >> >> > http://tech.xerces.com/unbreakable-upgrades-zfs-and-apt-get.geek >> > >> >> Here's how this would work in the yum world: >> >> 1. if any package from @core (or any of their deps) are being upgraded >> then run an lvm snapshot and store it/add it to grub >> 2. proceed with update >> >> If anyone would like to write the lvm snapshot rootfs and store/add it to >> grub I can write the yum plugin to do the rest. >> >> It's not radically exciting code. >> >> In yum you wouldn't even need to stop the yum update command and ask the >> user to run a separate program. > > My experience with lvm snapshotting was that it slowed down disk speeds > significantly. I would expect that filesystem based snapshotting (which > btrfs will have) might be more efficient. Or we could make sure the > snapshot is only left long enough to make sure the updates work. > > Jonathan > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- http://maxamillion.googlepages.com --------------------------------------------------------- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
