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> As for ZFS... Dealing in filesystem snapshots is comparatively a bit awkward. If you want to recreate that config elsewhere you have to move the whole snapsho
by chungy 2y ago
> As for ZFS... Dealing in filesystem snapshots is comparatively a bit awkward. If you want to recreate that config elsewhere you have to move the whole snapshot rather than just the recipe for building it
That wasn't the highlight of the point. It was that you can restore to a known good version of the operating system, effortlessly, regardless of what the operating system is. It could be Ubuntu, Nix, or FreeBSD. Broken OS, select an older snapshot in the boot loader, and you're golden again.
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoI think that IT departments are going to disallow their users that kind of freedom unless they have more information/control about just which configs their users are allowed to boot to. It has to be more descriptive/composable than a pile of bits and a timestamp or they won't go for it at all. As much as I want to put all the power in the hands of the user, I'm sympathetic to the plight of the IT guy who has a team that always boots to "last known good" config thats several years old because they just don't trust updates in general.