> Don't get me wrong zfs is great - but it doesn't come with magical transactions.
I never said it did!
But if you have a snapshotting FS underneath, transactional software maintenance becomes an order or two of magnitude easier to achieve.
The underlying philosophies of Unix are "keep it in files" and "keep it simple". That's why it didn't even have a file-hiding mechanism -- the dot-file thing was an accental, emergent property.
Keep it simple, keep it visible, keep it human-readable and human-fixable.
Because the more complex you make it, the more likely it is to go wrong, and some poor sap is going to have to fix it. Do not get in their way. Instead, think about them, allow for that, and help keep their life easy.
I never said it did!
But if you have a snapshotting FS underneath, transactional software maintenance becomes an order or two of magnitude easier to achieve.
The underlying philosophies of Unix are "keep it in files" and "keep it simple". That's why it didn't even have a file-hiding mechanism -- the dot-file thing was an accental, emergent property.
Keep it simple, keep it visible, keep it human-readable and human-fixable.
Because the more complex you make it, the more likely it is to go wrong, and some poor sap is going to have to fix it. Do not get in their way. Instead, think about them, allow for that, and help keep their life easy.