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Re: OpenSolaris Boot Environements equivalent



On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 6:28 AM Yassine Chaouche
<a.chaouche@algerian-radio.dz> wrote:
>
> 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)

I _think_ Guix may be doing something similar using a transactional
package management system. I don't follow the project closely, so I
may be wrong.

https://guix.gnu.org/

Jeff


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