[sle-beta] Transactional Updates in Leap 15

[Thorsten Kukuk]

On Thu, Apr 05, Johannes Meixner wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Apr 5 14:37 Richard Brown wrote (excerpt):
> > On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 13:25 +0100, Joe Doupnik wrote:
> > > ... Of particular concern is the arrow of time, which means changes
> > > occur on the running system after snapping
> ...
> > And that problem is addressed by the fact that the root filesystem
> > is read-only in the system role in question.
> > "The arrow of time" can't change anything, in the root filesystem.
> 
> What about changes in /etc in the running system after snapping?
> 
> https://kubic.opensuse.org/blog/2018-04-04-transactionalupdates/
> reads (excerpt):
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> User configuration in /etc is writable by virtue of an automatically
> configured overlayfs
             ^^^^^^^^^

It's not part of the snapshot.

  Thorsten
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