On Mar 7, 2014, at 6:31 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Mar 6, 2014, at 4:27 PM, Orion Poplawski <orion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>>> Other developers: OS Installer Support for LVM Thin Provisioning >>>> Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change) >>>> Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change) >>>> >>>> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/InstallerLVMThinProvisioningSupport >>> >>> >>> I this project dead? I'm casting about to tools to manage lvm snapshots and roller-derby sounded promising. Any other tools out there? >> >> There's a recent snapshot/rollback thread on the desktop list that relates to this. LVM thin provisioning support is in the Fedora 20 installer (it fails to produce a bootable system, the post-install fix for which is listed in Fedora 20 common bugs). >> >> However, if OSTree is used, then there isn't a hard requirement on either LVM Thin Provisioning or Btrfs. > > I don't think that's accurate. Which part? OSTree doesn't require either LVM thinp or Btrfs. It works on plain ext4 or XFS. > OSTree doesn't touch /home from what I > remember. It is only concerned with /usr and to as minimal a degree > as possible /etc. People likely still want snapshot and rollback for > their actual _data_ as well. Orion didn't mention /home, and Roller Derby doesn't directly address it either. Both yum-plugin-fs-snapshot and snapper can, but snapshots coincide with system updates. More useful is a regularly timed snapshot of the user's home, .e.g. hourly with age based clean-up. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
