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developers will do anything but to use a cow fs
by nicman23 8mo ago
developers will do anything but to use a cow fs
- bogwog 8mo agoCan you blame them? https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/bcachefs_creator_ai/ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/bcachefs_creator_ai/
- nicman23 8mo agomy man openzfs and btrfs is a thing
- okanat 8mo agoYou cannot replicate the full filesystem among multiple hosts with their own drives though, can you? With OSTree my team can deploy a commit over an existing ones to a field of 60k embedded Linux devices. Similarly bootc is a great alternative for deploying images for dedicated or virtualized servers.
- nicman23 8mo agoyeah you can? what you on about
- okanat 8mo agoHow do you tag / mark a commit a snapahot of all files in an OS image that's independent from each device's local state and then move them from one commit to another atomically? Basically a `git pull` on a branch but binary and atomic. CoW is strictly local. You can make a snapshot of local state sure and even atomically change it. But that's not we want.
- nicman23 8mo agoif i know all devices are on the same root? you just ship the snapshot diff and if it does not sync to the fs you just resync it all