Description of problem: Snapshotting that works with device-mapper/lvm and btrfs would be nice. Yum has this support. can be implemented as a plugin I guess atleast until Btfs is the default filesystem
Rahul, what particular use case does 'yum fssnapshot' solve for you? Please be as detailed as possible. (fssnapshot indeed was added to Yum in April 2013, we need to make sure it doesn't do the wrong thing for wrong reasons before trying to implement it. low prio anyhow).
The most common use case is to take a snapshot so that you can revert back easily if a bunch of potentially risky updates break the system
So in practice this takes a snapshot of all the / filesystem? Also /var? How often do you use this and generally how do you decide whether to take the snapshot before a particular update?
Not that often. I used to have Btrfs before on my system for testing and fs snapshot (as a plugin) was handy to take a snapshot just before pulling in a bunch of updates from updates-testing. Snapshotting uses just /var I think!
OK thanks for the info, let's keep this open.
Rahul are you still planning to use this? Do you currently use the Yum fssnapshot plugin? The demand for this seems to be very limited.
Not using it on my main system but was planning to once dnf got there but feel free to deprioritize it for now till you see more demand
I use this useful yum plugin. I'd like to see this feature in dnf. ;)
Hi, this added a while ago via snapper (https://snapper.io/). http://rpm-software-management.github.io/dnf-plugins-extras/snapper.html
It's good to known. Thank you.
Shall we close this bug or is there still a specific request out there to have the old plugin ported for some reason?
I have no more requests.
Thanks, closing the bug.