On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 16:18 -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2008 4:01 PM, seth vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You're not wrong, I was just describing what someone had told me they
> > had done with a yum plugin and it was highly similar to the apt+zfs
> > article. sorry for the confusion.
> >
> > LVM is not unique to the linux implementation. Several lvm mechanisms
> > (on things like veritas for example) allow snap file system copies.
> 
> Needless to say, if there was a way to do safe FS-level RPM rollbacks,
> lots and lots of people would be immensely pleased with that. :)
> 
> Of course, that is still rife with plenty of ways it can go horribly
> wrong. E.g. what happens when a %post restarts a process, and then we
> roll back the fs? Tricky stuff.

Not at all. You make it a complete system-state rollback. Take a
snapshot of system memory too. :) I mean software-suspend to disk is all
about a snapshot of memory at that time, right?


-sv


_______________________________________________
Yum-devel mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel

Reply via email to