Re: Bug#823465: dpkg: Won't run at all on i586 Pentium MMX due to illegal instruction
On Sun, 8 May 2016 16:40:22 +0200, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
wrote:
>On Sun, May 08, 2016 at 02:20:45PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>> Tracking sid is a good idea if you can debug and fix breakages. If you
>> want to be warned for disruptions, use something that we actually
>> released.
>
>Another way is to use btrfs (or zfs or perhaps LVM snapshots): whenever
>something goes south in a way that's not trivial to recover, you can
>restore with a couple commands and reboot. And if unbootable because,
>for example, someone removed support for your CPU, you boot with
>subvol=backups/sys-2016-05-07.
btrfs has suffered severe regressions since kernel 4.4, with the btrfs
upstream community only offering advice like "don't use so many
snapshots" or "say goodbye to existing snapshots, backup, format with
latest btrfs-tools, restore".
This is, unfortunately, not a filesystem that I'd trust to keep my
data, despite not having _lost_ actual data other than snapshots, but
those bugs and the suggested remedies do not fit my expectations.
Greetings
Marc
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