On 11/17/2009 03:56 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > > I'm not sure how much of this can/should be automated. > > Sorry, not quite following -- what is the caution around automatically > creating a new snapshot before each yum transaction? Why shouldn't it > be automated? > I somewhat read the initial suggestion as trying to implement transactional behavior via snapshot. Just creating one shouldn't hurt. > > This also keeps us out of the dangerous territory that comes with > > using non-ubiquitous FS features (your boot is on ext3, your root > > is on btrfs, your etc is on xfs and your usr is on jfs. What do > > you snapshot and how?) > > This feature would snapshot the btrfs / only, but that doesn't matter, > because snapshots don't do anything until the user chooses to initiate > a rollback. The user who chooses a btrfs / and a jfs /usr knows what > happens when they rollback only the btrfs filesystem. (And we can > print a warning to make sure of that if we decide it's necessary.) > We've now created a useless and slightly dangerous object though. Regardless of the competence of the user who's problem that is, better to avoid it if we can. > Thanks, > > - Chris. --CJD -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
