On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:18:50AM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 03:53:23PM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 07:00:12PM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote: > > > Yes, after the upgrade the system will be jaunty until the next > > > reboot, then the writable overlay is removed and the system is exactly > > > in the same state as before the upgrade. > > > > Does this overlay cover the whole filesystem? If people start creating > > files in /home that are going to be lost on reboot, it would be nice to > > warn them about that. > [..] > > The /home dir is excluded from the overlay. There is still a certain > risk with this however, assume hypothetical e.g. the new rhythmbox is > run after the test upgrade and it converts its database files to a new > format that the old (intrepid) version can no longer read. This is > pretty rare, but it does sometimes happens.
Is there any reason why we don't overlay /home? Just so that you can test upgrade for existing configs? - Alexander -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
