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That's really good to hear. Perhaps I need to stop using fringe distros like NixOS.
by willtim 5y ago
That's really good to hear. Perhaps I need to stop using fringe distros like NixOS.
- vereis 5y agoThis works until something does go wrong. At least with NixOS you can simply roll back!
- vbezhenar 5y agoFedora uses btrfs by default. I don't think that snapshots are enabled by default, but quick googling reveals some instructions which should enable snapshots for updates. I guess that might help to achieve similar behaviour.
- willtim 5y agoI don't think btrfs is a shining example of Linux stability/reliability. NixOS gives me rollbacks using XFS for root.
- danieldk 5y agoOr, if you want to use Fedora, try Fedora Silverblue [1]. It uses an immutable root filesystem and offers atomic updates and rollbacks through OSTree. [1] https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/ https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/
- KozmoNau7 5y agoThis is one of the reasons why I use openSUSE, it has automatic btrfs snapshots that let you roll back in case anything breaks. Tumbleweed is already one of the most stable rolling-release distros, and I haven't had anything break yet, but it's nice to have regular snapshots as an an extra layer of safety.