Hi,

After ****ing up my Scratchbox for the umptieth time I dediced to use a snapshotting solution hence currently I'm using snapshotting together with Scratchbox & Maemo SDK. Whenever I start to work I first make a snapshot. This is included in a script before it calls /scratchbox/login and if I screwed up I can rollback to a previous snapshot.

The advantage is that when you ****ed up your SDK you can switch back to a previous image in a wink without requiring to reinstall Scratchbox and SDK. It also does not use much more diskspace because only when files are different the different version is saved; ie. there are no dupes.

The disadvantage is that there is overhead involved. In my case I'm using ZFS-FUSE, which is not fun for I/O, although it does work. I cannot compare performance because I'm using different target storage than I was when using Ext4.

If there is interest I can provide a howto for using ZFS-FUSE together with Scratchbox & Maemo SDK.

Has anyone tried a similar setup (without VM images)? What did or do you use for providing snapshot/rollback support? Perhaps on a different layer than filesystem layer? What is the best solution to get this working well?