On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 7:53 PM, don fisher <hdf3@comcast.net> wrote:
You are correct about the legals. It was just my lazy way to get everything saved in one operation.
I think that's a distinct weak area on all Linux distros, honestly. I'm hopeful of a path toward more stateless systems, so that it's possible to tolerate system resets without user data or app install loss, and full on hardware failures with simple reliable OS reinstall that includes an option at firstboot to do a restore of stateful system data and user data. That's probably the domain of the DE's to do that work although there's certainly room for agreement on the underlying infrastructure. All the technological pieces are there, but it still needs a logical code design, code actually written (huge barrier) and then code tested and polished (another huge barrier). But it's possible, and I think valuable. There are just too many ways to put together a Linux system, too many locations for variable data, antiquated and unhelpful hierarchy for separating these things, and we need to get to some kind of standardization/agreements to constrain the layouts being used. That would help considerably with enabling sane single button reliable backup and restore. Btrfs can make this easier, it doesn't make it harder although like I said there are some complications with its deduplication -- Chris Murphy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org