From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 3 14:56:09 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BACC106564A for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2012 14:56:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bryan@shatow.net) Received: from secure.xzibition.com (secure.xzibition.com [173.160.118.92]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A65DE8FC1C for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2012 14:56:08 +0000 (UTC) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=shatow.net; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sweb; b=aKk8Mg a8w1wbGx8+2cqZS0wsEKkz5Eh4h1v9XP+6bTo57bJgBLLbaAcgFE8m+pxPTG35Oh ovq6wz+HEzyBeh3RMn09qZeInmEyVI3vLfMITV+4Ymo5xuuYsI1nWzCc7Sx+EDd3 nTQk0WFzlIv/r54kvUrzWYdWeoDH/YpIEPnH8= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple; d=shatow.net; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=sweb; bh=stuPCQvYRW/Y Fimp9dNQ3g5TbE4nNRNltGJDWUxoxfk=; b=s+rvUpGhSyfQe/zRwXMk4YtXba3d rmLsESilGuclBRhnay88UhtusbY8DZgM6+StYJxGD9UDBu0X1mwr+86GS3Kds/fc X0vSgVu8l9Macfzj2uAu0iaBSMtccV78ikuBZAmLiy9iJHrC9rfpueWR7udpJw7t u9euUXcgByG4QUU= Received: (qmail 79568 invoked from network); 3 Jun 2012 09:56:01 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.10.1.87?) (bryan@shatow.net@10.10.1.87) by sweb.xzibition.com with ESMTPA; 3 Jun 2012 09:56:01 -0500 Message-ID: <4FCB7B00.405@shatow.net> Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 09:56:00 -0500 From: Bryan Drewery User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Nehren References: <20120531204556.GB15877@isuckatdomains.members.linode.com> In-Reply-To: <20120531204556.GB15877@isuckatdomains.members.linode.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 OpenPGP: id=3C9B0CF9; url=http://www.shatow.net/bryan/bryan.asc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Solaris features in FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 14:56:09 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/31/2012 3:45 PM, Chris Nehren wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 17:20:04 +0200 , Oliver Fromme wrote: > And speaking of Solaris features... > > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 19:13:32 +0100 , Matthew Seaman wrote: >> This sort of operation is something that ZFS boot environment support >> (recently committed to HEAD, due for MFC within the month) makes much, >> much safer and easier to deal with. You don't need to do a separate >> reboot to test the kernel as you've still got an entire kernel+world in >> the previous BE to fall back on. > > This is *awesome*. /me removes yet another item from the "reasons to use > Solaris" list. I cannot wait to try this out. > ZFS Boot Environments are supported even without the HEAD changes. Some ports/scripts to assist: beadm Solaris-like script: sysutils/beadm (see http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=31662) Another: manageBE (http://anonsvn.h3q.com/projects/freebsd-patches/wiki/manageBE) Regards, Bryan Drewery -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJPy3r/AAoJEG54KsA8mwz5jK8QALz9udwIxQ2aEjdDoqgbOVZ6 87PwyX8GNVhFdnusajj7zgZM+pqXft93SG8lpNPzPDa+bqI/wQRQAAvrztpPKZJM 4VwmRNmH7bFjjGSo0luUaJ+A5lyKmNl6IR5OqGniw51UVHgbIwDRLG304AXeQc9n Eua6bBSKgKUeYtYV+vtBcIAqCeOpyW+QD94z04BcM+f5LzC86E/XZyKKNhLwzDwb XWum7sBWa+bf3T5qfKofuV0iOlbMj8CEbHUZg1MqyuQASBLYwkhmC9MRhL6Wsksy ccmCTDW7dGk3ng7Iqfbs4JJJ71osToP/k1UxPECG+sISXafFFBTVqPHVquvxOaVv 2SmYMBT9FbfmwXg8Ld6mVCd/kqDQx2NBuIiHkHroi38EX2W1398/O/57VRlw031+ +vxrSAhHj2v3YXPEmBu+8J5gDGJV2luSCftH8COua2dhtwqLPfkJpxooJbuPc+ll fqQfd0D9Cr1GIRBg4NKn5naesTCSaEZSmRFbRx5cqmlJ+6BqTgCV3e3cGSQypF1L cwSTwZU9U1uDYGJJ/62BYZz01CCS/h3EcrkYzmpKN+L7HLe6dkXaWlE47GyJ7NZk YT9nyP/tZt/xf5cEkSiTCTg3m1iNYar+3eT51rPofmzybC0uBSqZe8Fj/CCjQQfH jkBjdI4fhyWWrosHpjC0 =G/Tu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----