Valve Steam Deck

Re:Valve Steam Deck by bpye on Friday July 16, 2021 @04:26AM (#27854098)

Surely Valve would be better served by having some immutable system partition and maybe even A/B image based updates?

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Re:Valve Steam Deck by schmorptron on Friday July 16, 2021 @11:37AM (#27857390)

We're about 2 years out from having that work with most packages though, aren't we?

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Re:Valve Steam Deck by bpye on Saturday July 17, 2021 @09:54PM (#27870237)

I'm not convinced packages need to care. Most config users care about on a SteamDeck is going to be Steam or game specific, so Valve are in a good position to put that on some mutable partition.

For the system data, which could be immutable, they could either take an A/B approach with two different partitions, or perhaps use either btrfs or ZFS to allow the new version to be applied over the old version as a 'diff' of the system partition. On a failed update, or to rollback for any other reason the system partition would simply be rolled back to the last snapshot.

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