Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 18:59:45 -0500 From: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Cc: Raphael Eiselstein <rabe@uugrn.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD ZFS with Boot Environments (Was: 10.1-RELEASE: bsdinstall on zfs: /var and /usr on zroot/ROOT/default) Message-ID: <4483B8DB-D7C6-4337-A264-8125003CB7BD@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <54D7F529.4030103@quip.cz> References: <20150208113656.GE3395@lan.sigsys.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1502082341020.83088@gw-old.x-art.ru> <20150208232623.GA5255@lan.sigsys.de> <54D7F529.4030103@quip.cz>
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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.
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