[OpenWrt-Devel] Atomic/failsafe upgrades?

[Daniel Dickinson]

The problem with failsafe upgrades is that it IMO to do it right depends 
on bootloader support and that is mostly not available.

Regards,

Daniel

On 07/01/16 12:44 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> I'm trying to decide on a Linux-based OS to use in a project,
> and one of the features that I want is failsafe upgrades--
> such that failing to run an upgrade procedure to completion
> should be non-catastrophic, and automatically recoverable; the
> system should always be able to (re)boot into a state
> where it can run normally, either in the upgraded state
> or in the pre-upgrade state.
>
> One option that I've deal with is to keep two parallel
> system installs, upgrade whichever one you're not currently using,
> try to boot _that one_ after the upgrade finishes,
> and fall back to the last-known-good install
> if either the upgrade fails in the middle or the boot into
> the preferred install fails. IIRC, there's something like this
> available with Yocto; and, if I understand it correctly,
> NixOS also does something similar in spirit to this
> (though perhaps with a different granularity).
>
> Are there any provisions for doing something like that
> with OpenWRT?
>
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