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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I wonder why they use A/B root in the first place instead of a single BTRFS partition with Subvolumes and snapshots

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Possibly because of better reliability. If a filesystem breaks, all subvolumes it contains break in turn. Whereas independent filesystems will continue to run if one is corrupted.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Will this let us modify both A/B partition for small system level configuration changes without shenanigans?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago