On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:45:02PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Thu, 21.06.12 12:31, Antonio Trande (anto.tra...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > > BTRFS ? Will 'Offline Updates' be available only with BTRFS ? > > > > > > Nope. But on btrfs we'll make a snapshot of the old system state. On > > > non-btrfs we won't. > > > > > > > Maybe BTRFS will be the default filesystem in Fedora 18, therefore all that > > make sense. > > If i use EXT4, are snapshots (that are a guarantee if update fails) not > > available ? This automation of updates could be difficulty manageable. > > Snapshots only make sense really on CoW filesystems such as btrfs, and > they are not supported on ext4. That means the extra safety net that is > a snapshot will only be available on btrfs, and not on ext4, but the > snapshot is really just the cherry on top, not a must-have.
yum-plugin-fs-snapshot has logic to do snapshots both on btrfs and on LVM level. btrfs is a better option, though. -- Tomasz Torcz There exists no separation between gods and men: xmpp: zdzich...@chrome.pl one blends softly casual into the other. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel