[mythtv-users] OT: Virtualization

[Dave Badia]

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
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