Re: [PLUG] Linux distributions without version upgrades

[Michael Lazin <microlaser@gmail.com>]

Why not Debian Stable, it has a longer support cycle than ubuntu, and in my experience Debian upgrades, when they are needed, are relatively painless.  Also, it doesn't include the Unity crap that has been discussed so much.

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Austin Murphy <austin.murphy@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:40 AM, David Colon <dcolon@dcolon.org> wrote:
> btrfs is still immature. I'd recommend using LVM snapshots so you can
> rollback if necessary.

Rolling back to an LVM snapshot is not implemented yet.
http://lwn.net/Articles/363575/

Apparently there is a way to do it, but it doesn't seem "easy."
http://www.kernelcrash.com/blog/reverting-lvm-snapshots/2009/12/11/

Austin

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