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[–] FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

This is pretty cool, but I'm wondering why... Sure there's lots of systems that make use of A/B partitions, which is a pretty good move, but with BTRFS you could have it all in one partition with an A/B subvolume, and they would even be able to share extents that are common between the two (meaning drastically reduced disk space requirements), while still maintaining the ability to boot into either...

Depending on how much changes you might even keep many more than just two subvolumes. On my machine I run BTRFS with snapper, which takes periodic snapshots, as well as before and after every time I install or uninstall a package, with the ability to boot into any of the snapshots if a change somehow botches my system.