[LAU] System Restore...

[Ken Restivo]

On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:40:00PM -0400, cdr wrote:
> On Sat May 03, 2008 at 10:00:04PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Russell Hanaghan <hanaghan at starband.net> wrote:
> > >  I have spent many hours recently setting up a custom audio distro that will
> > >  be remastered and available as a live CD. I'm no Linux sys admin...I figure
> > >  stuff out any way I can, take longer than most to get it just how I like
> > >  it....and then I say..hmm, just one more thing I'd like to change....and I
> > >  bjork the window manager or some such thing. To re-install at that point
> > >  kills MANY hours of fruitfull work and I'm old enough that I don't need
> > >  cliche lessons! :)
> > >
> > >  Thoughts?   Oh, please choose smooth edged stones under 16oz in weight!
> > 
> > Netapp implemented this perfectly with the snapshots feature of their
> > WAFL filesystem.  In every directory there is a .snapshots
> > subdirectory containing monthly, weekly, and hourly snapshots of the
> > parent directory.  If you hose your system recovery is as simple as
> > "cp -pr .snapshots/hourly.1/* .".
> > 
> > Unfortunately it's patented so Linux can't do the same...
> 
> btrfs is GPL
> 
> i havent seen them cower in fear of such a ridiculous 'patent'

I am going to take out a patent on chewing food.

-ken