[mythtv-users] OT: Virtualization

[Anthony Giggins]

On 9 July 2013 18:16, Dave Badia <dbadia at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Tim Draper <veehexx at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> <snip>
>>
>> For me, moving to virtualisation would gain me snapshots (although
>> maybe i should look into LVM snapshots..) which would make upgrades
>> troublefree - i've had it in the past where an upgrade (mythtv
>> specifically) had a number of regressions in it. Obviously these were
>> fixed but it took a few weeks for things to be all ironed out again;
>> snapshot would of make that rollback so easy.
>>
> <snip>
>
> If your main goal is snapshots, consider moving to btrfs for your main
> filesystem.  Snapshots are built into the filesystem itself.  I upgraded to
> btrfs for that very reason about 6 months ago and it's been great.
>
> Dave
>

Or you can do the same thing with LVM

Anthony
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