<chapter id="upgrades-intro">
<title>You can turn off the power anytime you want...</title>
<para>
- At the time of this writing, it's common for released versions
- of mainstream operating systems (the Playstation OS, Microsoft
- Windows, Debian GNU/Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux) to have
- non-atomic upgrades; that is, the good ones pop up a screen that
- says "Please do not turn off the power". The bad ones don't
- even tell you that it's unsafe. The <emphasis>really</emphasis>
- bad ones actually mutate your running filesystem without taking
- precautions to prevent corrupting running processes.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- In contrast, OSTree is designed to implement fully atomic and
- safe upgrades; more generally, atomic transitions between lists
- of bootable deployments. If the system crashes or you pull the
- power, you will have either the old system, or the new one.
+ OSTree is designed to implement fully atomic and safe upgrades;
+ more generally, atomic transitions between lists of bootable
+ deployments. If the system crashes or you pull the power, you
+ will have either the old system, or the new one.
</para>
</chapter>