On Sun, 2014-01-26 at 13:13 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Jan 26, 2014, at 11:41 AM, Simo Sorce <simo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I never said it won't work in absolute, it probably will work ok in many > > cases, just to cause incredible issues in others. > > > > It is a fine tool in the hands of an expert that knows how to check > > whether reverting to a snapshot is safe. > > Why is the snapshot case any different from a user who reverts doing a > clean install or yum downgrade? It is not. > > It is not going to be a good solution for non-expert users though > > *unless* you provide system APIs that *all* applications use to signal > > when they are doing irreversible changes so that the user can be warned > > about potential data loss right when he asks the system to revert a > > snapshot. > > Developers should not be sneak attacking non-expert users with file > format changes that aren't well announced in advance of consequences > they probably won't be able to read their data if they downgrade the > application. Users should not expect miracles either. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
