Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 09:56:00 -0500 From: Bryan Drewery <bryan@shatow.net> To: Chris Nehren <apeiron+freebsd-stable@isuckatdomains.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Solaris features in FreeBSD Message-ID: <4FCB7B00.405@shatow.net> In-Reply-To: <20120531204556.GB15877@isuckatdomains.members.linode.com> References: <20120531204556.GB15877@isuckatdomains.members.linode.com>
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-----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-----
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