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From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [DRAFT] Snapshot boot design document
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 10:17:05 +0200
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On Wed, Jun 07, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jun 01, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> 
> > We're drafting a proposal for a generic snapshot boot mechanism, to
> > allow booting into previous snapshots of the system for LVM2 and
> > BTRFS volumes (as well as Stratis[1] in the future).
> 
> I like that proposal.
> 
> Some comments from me:

One more: please don't forget read-only root filesystems with all of
your designs. btrfs snapshots are read-only, so if you boot an old
snapshot, you have a read-only root filesystem.
And if you play with transactional updates by snapshots and rollback,
you will really like read-only root filesystems.

  Thorsten

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