-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-07-17 12:37, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 07/15/2015 08:14 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2015-07-15 20:07, Anton Aylward wrote:
You need /boot and / in the same partition to use on of the most useful features of btrfs and snapshots: be able to boot the system as it was before an update that went fubar.
I see no purpose in keeping /boot as part of the RootFS under a BtrFS file system.
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I *do* understand about snapshots and their use as 'backup'.
You are missing one of the main features of snapshots. Suppose you apply an update to the kernel and many things, and your machine fails to boot. Well, on boot you simply choose to boot a previous snapshot... simple. You can, for instance, upgrade from 13.2 to Tumbleweed, not like it, and revert completely in an instant, without losing home files nor logs and some other things I don't know. For this to work it is required to have /boot in the same btrfs partition as /lib/modules and the rest of "/". You may not want this feature (I don't), but it is the reason for doing it the way openSUSE default install is nowdays. And I know of absolute novices that have used the feature, when the experts knew nothing about it. We were trying to guide him on how to recover his system, and he just clicked on an automatic solution without our help. So yes, it works. Can it fail badly? Yes, it can. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlWpNBcACgkQja8UbcUWM1zNkwEAlOWm06PYPQYOTeW/coH/dvOi tkMfwl70c7RGlUDobegA/3rp1btMdHl/JeNRbGt/H75gqFZIiDXByo+BYkSnVVVA =XdKb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org