Re: if we want to advocate btrfs

2020-07-18 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 12:51 PM Andy Mender wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 at 18:09, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 5:39 AM Andy Mender wrote: >> > >> >On updates, a single automatic corrupted snapshot can >> > potentially hose the entire snapshotted volume. >> >> How do you

Re: if we want to advocate btrfs

2020-07-18 Thread Andy Mender
On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 at 18:09, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 5:39 AM Andy Mender > wrote: > > > >On updates, a single automatic corrupted snapshot can > > potentially hose the entire snapshotted volume. > > How do you mean? If this is a sort of superficial corruption like a > bad/

Re: if we want to advocate btrfs

2020-07-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 5:39 AM Andy Mender wrote: > >On updates, a single automatic corrupted snapshot can > potentially hose the entire snapshotted volume. How do you mean? If this is a sort of superficial corruption like a bad/failed/partial update, inconsistency between package manager and wh

Re: if we want to advocate btrfs

2020-07-12 Thread Andy Mender
On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 at 18:05, Neal Becker wrote: > I think if we really want to advocate for btrfs, we also should provide > the > tools to take full advantage of it. I've been using btrfs since it was > offered as an option on Fedora. On Ubuntu, there is a tool "snapper" to > help manage snaps

Re: if we want to advocate btrfs

2020-07-11 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Sat, 2020-07-11 at 12:05 -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > I think if we really want to advocate for btrfs, we also should > provide the > tools to take full advantage of it. I've been using btrfs since it > was > offered as an option on Fedora. On Ubuntu, there is a tool "snapper" > to > help man

if we want to advocate btrfs

2020-07-11 Thread Neal Becker
I think if we really want to advocate for btrfs, we also should provide the tools to take full advantage of it. I've been using btrfs since it was offered as an option on Fedora. On Ubuntu, there is a tool "snapper" to help manage snapshots. Unfortunately I didn't manage to get this setup on