Google Developing "DM-BOW" For Using Drive's Free Space For Data Snapshots

[Kushan]

That seems like a good way of doing it. Presumably this means that the OS must be rebooted so that it can switch over to using the updated partition?

Yup, that's exactly what happens. Update downloads and installs in the background while you continue to use your device, then a quick reboot and you're done.

Lots of info, including additional benefits, are here: https://source.android.com/devices/tech/ota/ab

[cybertraveler]

Care to elaborate? If done properly, Android utilises a dual system partition to do updates. This means the system can be updated while running and if the update fails, the live system partition is still good. It's basically blue/green on the device.

That seems like a good way of doing it. Presumably this means that the OS must be rebooted so that it can switch over to using the updated partition?

[Kushan]

How about actually update Android to handle updates properly rather than doing work-arounds.

Care to elaborate? If done properly, Android utilises a dual system partition to do updates. This means the system can be updated while running and if the update fails, the live system partition is still good. It's basically blue/green on the device.

The problem is that manufacturers have to actually set it up.

[droste]

So Google are working on software that makes it so data deleted by the user isn't really deleted and can easily be accessed/restored at a later time...

Nothing to see here folks... move along...

I hope you realize that this is how most file systems work since the beginning of file systems. When you delete a file, it's actually still there, it was just removed from the directories index and the space it used can be reused. But until this happen you can restore the file. This just makes the reuse case of space used by deleted files less random.

[Britoid]

I think there's still a bounty on getting native encryption support into BTRFS for possible Android use, that'd give them snapshot support.

I think Android would benefit from a deduplication filesystem. The majority of apps bundle the support libraries.

[Ananace]

Or, y'know, use a filesystem that does snapshots

I think there's still a bounty on getting native encryption support into BTRFS for possible Android use, that'd give them snapshot support.

[cybertraveler]

It's not that innovative anyway, 'cause when I delete an e-mail on Outlook dot com and empty the trash, I can still restore it for some time. So MS has this feature working in the cloud already and on desktop, we have similar things with ZFS and btrfs.

I know. It still really stood out to me though because... you know... it's Google.

[Vistaus]

So Google are working on software that makes it so data deleted by the user isn't really deleted and can easily be accessed/restored at a later time...

Nothing to see here folks... move along...

It's not that innovative anyway, 'cause when I delete an e-mail on Outlook dot com and empty the trash, I can still restore it for some time. So MS has this feature working in the cloud already and on desktop, we have similar things with ZFS and btrfs.

[Brophen]

When you wrote Drive in the title, I thought you meant Google Drive, especially since we don't talk much about drives for androids but sdcards usually.

I hoped, especially with Google working to pass Google Drive access to their Crostini Linux VMs in ChromeOS

[cybertraveler]

So Google are working on software that makes it so data deleted by the user isn't really deleted and can easily be accessed/restored at a later time...

Nothing to see here folks... move along...