alt Hacker Newsthat's how some phone OSes update the system (by having 2 read only fs)
that's how Chrome updates itself, but without the symlink part
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x4132 • today at 8:05 AM
not surprised about the chrome part, but pretty shocked at the phone OS part. I know APFS migration was done in this way, but wouldn't storage considerations for this be massive?
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No snapshotting at all? Thinking about it.. The filesystem does not support it I suppose.