Re: Fwd: yum rollback !!

well Fajar, i didnt quite understand your point, how is storage related to
the roll back functionality , ... ?
can u explain a bit , or refer some resources from where i can understand
this ?

Thanks
Satish


On 4/1/08, Fajar A. Nugraha <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Satish Eerpini wrote:
> > hi Fajar
> > yes , i actually didn't know that , but what if we make use of the
> > system file database
> I'm not sure what you mean by "system file database".
>
> > to trace back all the file changes that happened
> > after the rollback date and then trace back these files to RPM
> > packages using the databases in the repositiories, ...that would be
> > fast and a more correct way of doing it ??
> > what say ?
> >
> >
>
> An easier method would be to use some kind of versioning on storage level.
> For example :
>
> - Using Linux on top of LVM with LVM snapshot feature (I haven't test it
> much)
> - Using Linux on top of SAN storage with flash-copy/snapshot capability
> - Using Linux on top of iscsi-exported zfs emulated volume
> - Using Linux (kernel 2.4) on top of solaris brandZ zone, running on zfs
>
> That way the storage will handle snapshot and rollback, not yum.
>
> Regards,
>
> Fajar
>
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