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From: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
To: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Cc: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] btrfs-progs: btrfstune: print seeding status
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2019 13:45:13 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fd438225-19ef-e755-e3eb-4d95377824ef@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190104143415.1a4d4296@suse.de>


On 01/04/2019 09:34 PM, David Disseldorp wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 15:18:13 +0200, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> 
>> IMO seed has really been
>> hacked on "just because" and is lacking coherent design,

Can you elaborate please?

It has great potential, especially in the golden image kind of 
environment, current missing feature is ability to propagate and apply 
the golden image diff. Also it can be a choice of feature for the OS 
installation. I see a lot of potential in it.


>> I'd prefer it
>> didn't proliferate and rely on what we have currently.

> That's unfortunate to hear. Seed devices are IMO a very cool feature for
> transactional OS updates and live installers.



> Cheers, David
> 

      reply	other threads:[~2019-01-05  5:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-03 23:22 [PATCH 0/1] btrfs-progs: btrfstune: print seeding status David Disseldorp
2019-01-03 23:22 ` [PATCH 1/1] " David Disseldorp
2019-01-04  7:05   ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-01-04 10:26     ` David Disseldorp
2019-01-04 12:09       ` Anand Jain
2019-01-04 13:18       ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-01-04 13:34         ` David Disseldorp
2019-01-05  5:45           ` Anand Jain [this message]

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