On Tuesday 03 of September 2013 17:04EN, Olaf Hering wrote:
In the past the snapshots were enabled automatically. I once installed a VM with just a 20G disk and soon this small disk was filled up after some zypper patch/dup calls. It was not immediately obvious why the root filesystem ran out of space. Google pointed to snapper and somehow I managed to remove the (unwanted) snapshots.
Unless the snapshot handling has improved to not suddenly fillup the disk during ordinary usage I suggest to disable them per default. Maybe add a big red button in the installer proposal to easily enable/disable them.
I think we should distinguish between two different things: 1. Enabling btrfs snapshots by default 2. Letting the system (by default) take snapshots periodically and/or upon certain actions (e.g. zypper d?up) My opinion would be yes for 1, no for 2. Michal Kubeček -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org