Gus Wirth wrote:
Does OS X not have packages like Debian or Fedora? Since VMware is
mostly made up of binary files, does this mean you store entire binaries
when differences arise (not that big a deal since disk is cheap)?
Yes, it does have packages.
Yes, you store entire binary files when differences arise.
How would this work for a system that is under package management and
you have to revert the database that goes along with the packages?
You revert the database as well.
Obviously, you undo *all* changes made since then, as well. However, my
normal usage is such that I normally am reverting what I am playing with
right now. It's not something I need to do very often.
I could probably do away with older history given my usage patterns.
However, unless the repository starts chewing up too much disk space,
I'll probably punt.
I'm not sure I would see the need for this if a system has LVM and you
can just take snapshots and then revert if something doesn't work right.
What happens when the install changes something outside of a particular
volume?
If all of your volumes were under LVM all the time, this would also work.
Again, I would really like a versioned file system (I don't need the
full flexibility of a VCS for my system files--merging has little
meaning). There is no reason anymore not to have one.
I really could use ZFS on everything, at this point.
-a
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