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Subject: Re: FreeBSD ZFS with Boot Environments (Was: 10.1-RELEASE: bsdinstall
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From: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
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On Feb 8, 2015, at 6:45 PM, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote:

> Raphael Eiselstein wrote on 02/09/2015 00:26:
>=20
> [...]
>=20
>> Having a BE is cool stuff I guess, but it lacks some documentation =
(at
>> least in FreeBSD handbook).
>>=20
>> I found just a side note about "boot environments" in the "FreeBSD
>> handbook": =
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-partitioning.html
>>=20
>> Is there some "official" documentation about boot environments?
>>=20
>> Searching the web for 'site:freebsd.org zfs "boot environment"' I =
found
>> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/howto-freebsd-zfs-madness.31662/
>> So is this "official" or mainstream or just a experimental hack or a =
poc?
>=20
> BE is heavily used by PC-BSD, so you can try to look for some =
documentation on pcbsd.org.


See, also, the sysutils/beadm port for how to create and use boot =
environments under FreeBSD.

I don't know if the bsdinstall ZFS partitioning option is compatible =
with sysutils/beadm boot environments, but, from what I've seen in this =
thread, it looks like it is.

Cheers,

Paul.