Using snapper for rollback on btrfs

[Pietrog]

I want to implement snapshots on my future gentoo installation. In order to do that my btrfs fs will have:
- . subvol for the base system
- .home subvol for the home folder
- .snapshots subvol for snapshots (created by snapper)

My first question is does this configuration make sense or I'm missing something?

Secondly on my previous installation snapper complained about "wrong ambit" and "system not configured for rollback", on the wiki I didn't see anything helpful about this, do you have some advices?

Finally it seems that snapper is not the easiest manner to manage a btrfs filesystem but it's the only thing that seems easy enough to use in a terminal, if you have any suggestions feel free to teel me.

Thank you :)

[WesleyL]

Pietrog, I suggest you to create a btrfs subvolume outside your root subvolume and mount it on "/.snapshots", this way you can roll back your system to a previous state easier. The Arch Wiki has a very comprehensible guide on how to setup snapper and use it's snapshots:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Snapper
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Snapper#Restoring_/_to_its_previous_snapshot

[Pietrog]