Josh Boyer wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Some time back there was discussion of being able to rollback yum updates via >> btrfs snapshotting. As I recall, it turned out that the default btrfs >> install was not setup correctly to make this feasible (I had briefly tested >> it on my >> machine). I haven't heard anything since - this seems like a great idea. > > Well, yum is being retired in favor of dnf and btrfs still isn't the > default filesystem because it still isn't stable enough. So that's > basically what happened. > > Now, it is possible to do this in dnf (either with btrfs or with dm > snapshots) but I'm not aware of anyone working on it. Fedora has the > Snapper tool available in the repos, which could do snapshotting > outside of dnf as well. > > josh My recollection was that snapshots on btrfs worked, but it was difficult to really do the rollback because the snapshots were stored inside the root as a subtree, or something to this effect - and that to work nicely the original btrfs install needed to be done differently? -- -- Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
