On 08/07/2013 06:54 PM, Monty Taylor wrote: > > > On 08/07/2013 12:53 PM, Joshua Harlow wrote: >> I agree triple-o will help a lot here although I would disagree that >> package rollback is an illusion. I would call it more of a hard >> problem instead since nothing is really impossible :) > > illusion with current packaging systems yum/rpm and apt/dpkg. > > One of the reason that Ian Murdock worked on OpenSolaris was to try to > make a next-gen packaging system. It was called IPS (image packaging > system) and was based on ZFS filesystem transaction abilities. So you'd > start a ZFS transaction before you started doing an IPS operation, and > then if that action was successful, you'd commit.
Seems similar to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemRollbackWithBtrfs cheers, Pádraig. _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
