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
