On: Versioning Your Home Directory

[znpy]

You know, this aspect of versioning a home directory is basically why home directories aren't versioned very often.

That being said, if you want to "version your home directory", I think that zfs is the best approach.

Also, transient files and browser temp files should reside on /tmp AFAIK... So that's less of an issue. If you application is writing temporary files outside of /tmp, then it's probably a bug.

[lostapathy → znpy]

Take your chrome browser history. That doesn't really belong in /tmp, but it's also not something that's going to sync around well with zfs, either.