OpenSUSE Leap 15 Supports Transactional Updates Using Btrfs / Zypper / Snapper

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OpenSUSE Leap 15 Supports Transactional Updates Using Btrfs / Zypper / Snapper

Of the many new features coming to openSUSE Leap 15 that is built from the same sources as SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 is support for transactional updates...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenSUSE-15-Trans-Updates

[treba]

Wow, this is great. I hope fedora will take a similar route with their atomic platform.

[tessio]

Wow, this is great. I hope fedora will take a similar route with their atomic platform.

I think this is what rpm-ostree is for.

[DrYak]

Is it just some more fleshed-out version of what was already done in the past on openSUSE with Btrfs + Snapper + Zypper/Yast (automatic snapshots before/after installations, with support to boot into an older snapshot from gurb if anything goes wrong) ?
Or is it something distinctivly different ?

[PackRat]

Is it just some more fleshed-out version of what was already done in the past on openSUSE with Btrfs + Snapper + Zypper/Yast (automatic snapshots before/after installations, with support to boot into an older snapshot from gurb if anything goes wrong) ?
Or is it something distinctivly different ?

It's a different project. There is a entry to select 'transanctional update' with the installer. I think you can use both snapper and this feature as well.