Feature changed by: Jiri Srain (jsrain) Feature #320834, revision 7 - Title: Create a /var/cache subvolume + Title: [BETA 1 / 2] Create a /var/cache subvolume Requested by: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk) Developer: YaST Maintainers mailing-list (yast2-maintainers) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: On the openSUSE Factory list, somebody found a valid bug in our current setup for snapshots: /var/cache is part of the snapshot. This means: all RPMs used for an update are part of the snapshot as they will be only deleted after creating the snapshot. This is a big problem if you regular update online, it will eat up your diskspace very fast. The same is true for all other cached data, there is no real sense in having them included into a snapshot, since they change very fast, they will only eat up disk space. We need to add /var/cache to the list of directories, for which we create a subvolume with btrfs. And (that's why I created a FATE and no bug) we need to add something to the release notes, so that customers are aware of this and can create the subvolume at their own for existing installations. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Save disk space by excluding irrelvant/outdated cached data from snapshots. Discussion: #1: Hannes Kühnemund (hkuehnemund) (2016-05-04 13:33:56) Just read the conversation on research and passed on to PrjMgr. + #2: Jiri Srain (jsrain) (2016-05-05 13:28:59) + Updated yast2-storage is on its way to SP2:GA + (https://build.suse.de/request/show/114103). + Keeping open for now, since the release notes entry to document how to + create such subvolume in an installed system (without having any side + effects) is missing. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/320834