Hello together! We are currently working on the mender.io standalone client integration in a debian based linux basesystem (ELBE). During this we stumbled upon a use case we have as requirement that we have a problem fulfilling (or we don’t find it). Maybe someone has a clue? Let me give you a bi…

Hello @AnWi :wave: A rollback is theoretically possible with the mender.io client, but it is necessary to commit before reboot. After commit and reboot we did not find an “official” solution to shift the pointer to the “old” partition after the commit. I’m not quite sure I follow? Your use-case …

Thanks for the reply! Sorry, I was a bit missleading I guess. Like you said the regular workflow is to install → reboot → commit. Then a rollback is not possible anymore because you commited. What we would like to be able to do is install → reboot → commit → rollback. Reason is that for example…

I understand. It’s an interesting thought, but breaks a bit with our A/B ideology atm. However, say you’re rolling back to the old partition, through an update, maybe something clever, like an update module using casync or similar could be a good idea? Then the data already on the old partition wo…

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