On 08/17/2016 12:14 PM, Mark Post wrote:
> I'm hoping that when people are saying "SLES12" they are really
> meaning "SLES12 SP1 or later."  SLES12 GA has been out of support for
> a while now.

Oh, definitely. For sure :) As soon as we jump in we'll grab the latest...


> With SLES12, zipl really doesn't play much of a role.  You still need
> it, but it only gets executed when grub2 gets [re-]installed. That's
> why you won't see a /etc/zipl.conf any more.

Great to know.


> Something that _is_ a consideration are btrfs subvolumes.  The way
> the rollback feature works, everything that is in a subvolume of / is
> _not_ included in the snapshots and hence cannot be rolled back.
> That's why you see things like /var/log, /home, /opt and so on as
> subvolumes.  So, don't go creating subvolume without keeping in mind
> they won't be part of a rollback.

Ok, so we'll leave the defaults then - at least for the OS stuff.

Thank you Mark, as always, for your feedback!

Regards,
Jorge

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