Re: Ability to discard all changes after a point in time?

[dexen deVries <dexen.devries-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Jiro,

On Wednesday 01 of June 2011 14:33:13 you wrote:
> I know this is not what you want, but as a partial solution,
> timebrowse (http://timebrowse.sourceforge.net/) can restore the files
> or directories of NILFS2 checkpoints from nautilus interface.
> 
> Of course, this will merely rsync from the checkpoint to current mount
> point. Therefore all the history still remain in the log and it may take
> unreasonable time if the differences are big.


Thanks, that's a good thing. Btw., is there any KIO slave or application for 
KDE with similar functionality?

My target usecase was: OS is so mis-configured it won't even boot. I wanted to 
pass a parameter to kernel to make it discard some recent changes and go on 
with a slightly older version of files.

Another usecase was: due to bug in older kernel FS had a few recent 
checkpoints corrupted. It's either back files up and re-format the filesystem, 
or roll back a few minutes to an older, correct checkpoint.


Regards,
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