Whoops! Caught a bad update

Chris Bier chris.bier at cymor.com
Tue Dec 9 10:46:03 CST 2008


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This fs only appends data:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NILFS


> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Haworth, Michael A. wrote:
>
>> - is there a way to just 'undo' the updates that I applied the other
>> day? I know that Linux doesn't have the 'Restore Point' functionality,
>> but shouldn't there be a way to remove/regress packages (with no
>> Software Source) to get back to a version that is preferred/functional?
>
> I fondly remember VMS and its versioning file system.  Every change was a
> revision and old versions were kept as default.  If I made lots of changes
> and the day turned out real bad, I could just go back in time.  That one
> feature of VMS more than made up for its interesting command line format.
>
> I hear a versioning file system is in the works:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versioning_file_system
>
> -=Duane
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