Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (776 mails)

[Roman Bysh <rbtc1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu 12 Sep 2013 09:26:34 AM EDT, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Le mardi 03 septembre 2013 à 16:41 +0200, Frederic Crozat a écrit :
>
> > > So, I'd like to propose that we use btrfs as the default file system for
> > > the 13.1 release before we release the first beta.
> >
> > I support this !
>
> And just some additional advertisement to btrfs / snapper, because it
> saved my "Factory" day today:
> - upgraded my Factory system to today Factory packages (was running
> yesterday Factory)
> - rebooted, got issues with Xorg (either not starting or no mouse cursor
> visible under GNOME).
> - there were a lot of packages updated, making it difficult to locate
> which one was guilty
> - and with Factory, if a package is broken, you either wait or try to
> revert to snapshot, which isn't always easy
> - in the end, I just reverted my system to the snapshot taking by
> snapper right before the update, with "snapper undochanges
> snapshot_number_before_update..snapshot_number_after_update"
> - rebooted
> - got back a working system
>
> ;)

+1

Cheers!

Roman

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