On 24.08.2011 10:08, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 08/24/2011 01:55 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: >> So, we want to make clear that any kind of solution that does not use a >> proper recovery partition is merely a stop gap in our eyes. > > Agreed the way forward is recovery partition which get's created at install > time > and should be an opt out option in the installer ( or opt in ) > however recovery partition is not enough. > > For upgrades/updates we should be looking at solaris and it's boot environment > and live upgrades[1],[2].( I would not be surprised if Apple did just that ) > > For desktop applications we need something like [3] along with Time machine + > btrfs support as and I personally would say drop the hack Lennart suggested > to > meet your needs and go straight for the recovery/upgrades/updates > partition/snapshot implementation in systemd, tools and desktop applications. > ( Go get it right from the start instead of implementing something that kinda > works but actually does not ) > > Just my 2 cents. > > JBG > > 1.http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Troubleshooting_Guide#Solaris_Live_Upgrade_Migration_Scenarios > > 2.http://www.filibeto.org/sun/lib/solaris10-docs/E19253-01/821-1910/6nms46fkb/index.html > > 3.http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433 ( Looks like just some livecd/usb > creation > app Gnome needs a well integrated livecd/usb creation app other DE probably > too ) >
Hmm, with the initramfs moving in the direction of being able to mount /usr, we could extend it to mount the rest as well. We can see the initramfs as _the_ rescue environment, which could do the upgrade as well, without the need of doing a reboot afterwards. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel