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Often enough to matter, given that the preferred update method for OS updates in Fedora increasingly relies on offline updates so that correctness can be enforced.

Especially as Fedora moves towards Silverblue (aka Atomic/OSTree) which uses a content-store, hard-link farm, and pivot-root at boot for atomic upgrades.

Systems using A/B partition flipping (such as ChromeOS) would also benefit from this.



I'm not sure if `rpm-ostree` can (yet?), but NixOS can do the pivot with a live running system. It's a similar pivot/symlink-farm strategy.




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