Re: BTRFS 0.17 in rawhide (at some point)

[seth vidal <skvidal fedoraproject org>]

On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 12:53 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Josef Bacik wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I've just updated btrfs-progs to 0.17 in rawhide, and will be doing
> > the same for F-10 and F-9 shortly.  If you are using the rawhide
> > kernel then you will be able to test with the newly merged btrfs
> > filesystem.  All testing is greatly appreciated.  Here is a wiki page
> > which outlines some of the basic commands you can use with btrfs
> > 
> > http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Getting_started
> > 
> > Btrfs has built in snapshotting, subvolumes and RAID support, so lots
> > of fun new things to tinker with.  
> 
> I know this is very early but just to get an idea of the status, has 
> anyone looked into:
> 
>   * RPM/Yum integration for rollbacks

the last one would be implemented in exactly the same way lvm snapshots
would - via a yum plugin running before a transaction.

-sv