[ostree] docs/introduction: Note VMs vs baremetal
- From: Colin Walters <walters src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [ostree] docs/introduction: Note VMs vs baremetal
- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 19:21:01 +0000 (UTC)
commit 7ace5d35bd8b9d4d407b725518497df425376573
Author: Colin Walters <walters verbum org>
Date: Thu Mar 3 14:20:44 2016 -0500
docs/introduction: Note VMs vs baremetal
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@@ -79,6 +79,13 @@ filesystem that supports hard links. Note: OSTree will
transparently take advantage of some BTRFS features if deployed
on it.
+OSTree is orthogonal to virtualization mechanisms like AMIs and qcow2
+images, though it's most useful though if you plan to update stateful
+VMs in-place, rather than generating new images.
+
+In practice, users of "bare metal" configurations will find the OSTree
+model most useful.
+
## Atomic transitions between parallel-installable read-only filesystem trees
Another deeply fundamental difference between both package
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