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      @kristoff @purplemonkeymad But watch out: you will need a *huge* root partition, because it’s very easy to fill it with snapshots and if it reaches 100% it *will* corrupt.

      Btrfs is tricksy: it won’t give a straight answer to df -h and there is no working equivalent of fsck.

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        3 months ago

        @kristoff @purplemonkeymad All of these are in-place same-disk snapshots. The ChromeOS system is simpler and so can be automated but you only get 1 level of undo.

        I don’t know any mainstream OS that does dual-failover. Deepin Linux has 2 root partitions but I don’t know how it uses them.

        I think Valve SteamOS does something like this. It’s not just for games: it has KDE built in. There are guides to getting it running on your own hardware. You will want AMD graphics, though.

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          As I mentioned earlier, I guess chrome is more like android where you have a much more strict seperation between the OS, applications and user data. (I remember reading about all the different partitions on android and what they are used for, but I should bruch up my knowledge on this).

          Thanks for the additional into on brtfs! 👍