Hi,

I will try to test that patch then, I will reply when I'm done with info about 
issues or info about commit ;)

Regards,
vermaden

Od: "Andrew Hotlab" <andrew.hot...@hotmail.com>
Do: "Bryan Drewery" <bdrew...@freebsd.org>; 
Wysłane: 17:18 Środa 2014-02-19
Temat: RE: [patch] sysutils/beadm

> ----------------------------------------
> > Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 07:27:45 -0600
> > From: bdrew...@freebsd.org
> > To: andrew.hot...@hotmail.com
> > CC: po...@freebsd.org; verma...@interia.pl
> > Subject: Re: [patch] sysutils/beadm
> >
> > On 2/13/2014 4:19 PM, Andrew Hotlab wrote:
> >> First of all, thank you very much for the good work with this port. I'm 
> >> sure it's changing the life of a lot FreeBSD system administrators!
> >>
> >> In my setup I have the following layout (several datasets for /usr, /var, 
> >> etc.):
> >>
> >> NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
> >> sys 1.55G 18.0G 31K none
> >> sys/ROOT 532M 18.0G 31K none
> >> sys/ROOT/default 114K 18.0G 250M /
> >> sys/ROOT/default/tmp 22K 18.0G 38K /tmp
> >> sys/ROOT/default/usr 1K 18.0G 245M /usr
> >> sys/ROOT/default/var 48.5K 18.0G 36.4M /var
> >> sys/swap 1.03G 19.0G 16K -
> >>
> >> At this moment the utility does not seems to be able to manage this 
> >> scheme, since it sets the mountpoint property as "legacy" for all datasets 
> >> under the root, thus preventing to automatically mount any subdirectory at 
> >> boot.
> >> I've tested this simple solution (to let do the job to the canmount 
> >> property), and it seems to solve the problem without affecting the 
> >> behavior when all system folders are located under a single root dataset 
> >> (please see the patch below). I'd be glad if you'll include it in the next 
> >> port revision.
> >>
> >
> > ACK on this. CC'ing upstream maintainer too.
> >
> > I run the same setup but I specifically set /usr /var and /tmp mntpoints
> > to /usr,/var/,/tmp to avoid this issue. I am not sure if mntpoint=/ is
> > proper. I recall there being an issue with it. I would much prefer your
> > patch though if it is safe.
> >
> > Does beadm mount still work with this to mount a new BE into /tmp?
> >
> > Ie,
> >
> > beadm create newbe
> > beadm mount newbe
> >
> > Does it go and remount / or only touch /tmp?
> >
> 
> It seems to behave correctly, as you can see in the attached transcript.
> 
> > How about activating? Does it blow away / right away or wait until reboot?
> 
> Since beadm changes only the "canmount" ZFS property to set the active 
> environment for the next reboot, there is no implications for the running 
> environment.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Andrew                                          


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