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Re: OpenSolaris Boot Environements equivalent



> Hello all,
> 
> I was wondering if there was anyone working on an equivalent of
> OpenSolaris BE? Basically,
> It automatically creates ZFS snapshots of the whole system each time
> you do a system upgrade. Next time you boot,
> you'll have the choice of running the new system
> or the old one.
> Pretty handy to roll back in case anything goes wrong during the
> system update.
> 
> If nothing like it is avaiable for linux,
> what would be the necessary steps to achieve something similar?
> (even manually)

openSUSE does this by default using a btrfs file system and its snapper
utility.


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