Hi all, > It'd be great to get feedback on whether this is the right idea, > and how exactly the UI interaction should work, before submitting > this formally. Some off-list feedback so far: * People want independent active snapshots per filesystem (i.e. btrfs /home is the live filesystem, and btrfs / is an older snapshot), which makes sense but makes the UI more complex since it'll have to show a list of (filesystem, snapshot) tuples. * Ray says not to invent a new system-config-blah, and instead to talk with davidz about Palimpsest. David, what do you think? * Several people think that the ZFS Time Slider patches to nautilus¹ look good, and want that for btrfs. Sounds plausible², but I'm personally less interested in file versioning via snapshots and more interested in working on ways to let developers feel comfortable upgrading to Rawhide daily, for the next release. * 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. Could work; maybe an anaconda dialog that says "hey, I see you're choosing btrfs, we're going to turn on snapshots and we suggest you use a separate /home partition". Any more thoughts? Thanks! - Chris. ¹: http://blogs.sun.com/erwann/entry/zfs_on_the_desktop_zfs http://blogs.sun.com/erwann/entry/time_slider_screencast http://blogs.sun.com/erwann/entry/new_time_slider_features_in ²: It's a bit awkward; you have to do a mount on each snapshot to be able to show the directory listing for it, but it appears that's what ZFS/Time Slider does already, so it won't be any worse.. -- Chris Ball <cjb@xxxxxxxxxx> One Laptop Per Child -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
