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zdw on Aug 26, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: OSTree – Robust OS upgrades for Linux

This is closer to using a DVCS to manage the files on disk than block level snapshots.

See also the Solaris 10 IPS, which appears on the surface to have many similarities (checksums, http delivery of files, etc.) to OStree

bensummers on Aug 26, 2013 [–]

IPS and Boot Environments using ZFS is an OpenSolaris thing, available in Solaris 11 and some Illumos distributions like OmniOS. And someone has ported BEs to FreeBSD.

But of course, all the cool new features in Linux have been in use in production by Solaris people for years. :-)

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