A little more info for the (perhaps) curious: Managing Multiple Boot Environments: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2009.06/getstart/bootenv.html#bootenvmgr Introduction to Boot Environments: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2009.06/snapupgrade/index.html
- Dan Naumov On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Dan Naumov <dan.nau...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This reminds me. I was reading the release and upgrade notes of OpenSolaris > 2009.6 and noted one thing about upgrading from a previous version to the new > one:: > > When you pick the "upgrade OS" option in the OpenSolaris installer, it will > check if you are using a ZFS root partition and if you do, it intelligently > suggests to take a current snapshot of the root filesystem. After you finish > the upgrade and do a reboot, the boot menu offers you the option of booting > the new upgraded version of the OS or alternatively _booting from the > snapshot taken by the upgrade installation procedure_. > > Reading that made me pause for a second and made me go "WOW", this is how > UNIX system upgrades should be done. Any hope of us lowly users ever seeing > something like this implemented in FreeBSD? :) > > - Dan Naumov > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbee...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> The system boots from a pair of drives in a gmirror. Mot because you can't >> boot from ZFS, but because it's just so darn stable (and it predates the use >> of ZFS). >> >> Really there are two camps here --- booting from ZFS is the use of ZFS as >> the machine's own filesystem. This is one goal of ZFS that is somewhat >> imperfect on FreeBSD at the momment. ZFS file servers are another goal >> where booting from ZFS is not really required and only marginally beneficial. >> >> > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
