From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 13 22:56:42 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78311236; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:56:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from mail-la0-f54.google.com (mail-la0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 828BF8FC1E; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:56:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f54.google.com with SMTP id j13so2254817lah.13 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:56:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=R4lRhrnh7rGoT+IHbVPBZPnoeEc+b+/H3I68n8J9B+4=; b=TLR7xd8XvF6mcEWu+V5H4U8sU9N8hAupqTBRRctiYE6pgjHOGCEaHZxmuWAgxalHVc TmNLVCOr0N+dpcxNpkrymdY/U/EHh69vTBRHelUg6JQmi+2d7h2fAnYjRrSNgF8EWqnJ udoG0JKVO0prreCr+Z8ZNXW6NN8KsS44zCl604dj34ahwmTjgZIJ/wVKNbXGonzvikZW uKWKiyKe3ccmn16WCE5l6Sik/ejGrjoS/bz4BTobVeDyZdGsGo4T3Yilg5rhKW6bH2er 8TjnxEXQjsquNP0vN6jtO9S/+Of2vAkXweFMsAaWzPn+IfEZdPONAKCph7VEt2lXI09n 6D5Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.152.103.19 with SMTP id fs19mr759400lab.15.1355439400025; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:56:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.81.40 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:56:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <50B6598B.20200@FreeBSD.org> <50C9BA19.4040504@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:56:39 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] zfs root pool mounting From: Freddie Cash To: Garrett Cooper Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: FreeBSD Current , Andriy Gapon , freebsd-zfs@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:56:42 -0000 On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:20 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > ... > > > One thing that I recommend to all ZFS users is to make use of boot > environments. > > They are very easy, very convenient and may save a lot of trouble. > > Use either any of the tool available in ports (e.g. sysutils/beadm) or > just "do > > boot environments" in an ad hoc fashion: snapshot and clone your current > / known > > good boot+root filesystem and you have a safe environment to fall back > to. > > Looks interesting (this page has a slightly more in-depth description > of what beadm tries to achieve for the layman like me that doesn't use > *Solaris: > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/*bsd-17/howto-zfs-madness-beadm-on-freebsd-4175412036/ > ). > > You could at least point to the FreeBSD Forums version of that post. :) https://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=31662 -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com