On May 08 2016, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote:
> On Sun, May 08, 2016 at 02:20:45PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>> Tracking sid is a good idea if you can debug and fix breakages. If you
>> want to be warned for disruptions, use something that we actually
>> released.
>
> Another way is to use btrfs (or zfs or perhaps LVM snapshots): whenever
> something goes south in a way that's not trivial to recover, you can
> restore with a couple commands and reboot. And if unbootable because,
> for example, someone removed support for your CPU, you boot with
> subvol=backups/sys-2016-05-07.
I'd advise against using LVM snapshots. The time for initial activation
seems to go up exponentially with the amount of data in snapshot
volumes. I think they are only intended for short-term use
(e.g. to take a backup).
Best,
-Nikolaus
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