> Now I have this: > > > BE Active Active on Mountpoint Space > Name reboot Used > ---- ------ --------- ---------- ----- > opensolaris no no - 24.54M > opensolaris-2 yes yes / 8.55G > opensolaris-1 no no - 191.71M >
Because of the time-out problem that I am having with IPS (I was trying to re-load thunderbird--a long story), my `beadm list` result looks like follows: BE Active Active on Mountpoint Space Name reboot Used ---- ------ --------- ---------- ----- opensolaris-2_static:-:2008-06-20-10:47:34 no no - 53.5K opensolaris-2_static:-:2008-06-20-09:56:12 no no - 64.5K opensolaris-2_static:-:2008-06-20-10:51:33 no no - 64.5K opensolaris-2_static:-:2008-06-20-09:15:46 no no - 53.5K opensolaris-1 no no - 66.06M opensolaris no no - 58.86M opensolaris-2_static:-:2008-06-20-10:44:30 no no - 53.5K opensolaris-2_static:-:2008-06-20-20:14:43 no no - 71.5K opensolaris-2_static:-:2008-06-20-16:36:42 no no - 64.5K opensolaris-2_static:-:2008-06-20-16:34:56 no no - 64.5K opensolaris-2 yes yes legacy 8.53G opensolaris-2_static:-:2008-06-20-16:38:41 no no - 54.5K opensolaris-2_static:-:2008-06-20-16:28:26 no no - 53.5K opensolaris-2_static:-:2008-06-20-05:09:14 no no - 64.5K opensolaris-2_static:-:2008-06-20-09:58:43 no no - 53.5K opensolaris-2_static:-:2008-06-20-16:22:59 no no - 53.5K opensolaris-2_static:-:2008-06-20-10:50:07 no no - 64.5K opensolaris-2_static:-:2008-06-20-10:55:35 no no - 64.5K opensolaris-2_static:-:2008-06-20-09:47:21 no no - 64.5K opensolaris-2_static:-:2008-06-20-10:53:46 no no - 64.5K opensolaris-2_static:-:2008-06-20-10:00:59 no no - 53.5K opensolaris-2_static:-:2008-06-20-09:40:03 no no - 64.5K Every time I tried to install something from IPS, OpenSolaris/ZFS created a new boot option. In this example, I failed about a couple of dozen times with IPS, OpenSolaris/ZFS faithfully also created a couple of dozen boot options. But do I mind? Not at all. Not at all. I don't think this needs explanation. But the point is, when my every effort failed to re-install thunderbird, I was able to boot back into the state before thunderbird was deleted, without I actually doing anything. Or, better yet, since I was having problems with the updated thunderbird, which prompted me to un-install and try to re-install thunderbird in the first place, I was able to boot back into the original version of OpenSolaris, happily checking and sending out mails now--and forget about all the updates. What's more amazing is that OpenSolaris/ZFS actually keeps a copy of the user files associated with this original version of thunderbird (with a time stamp b/f the update). For ordinary mortals like me who are always paranoid about making a stupid mistake that will screw up our computers and put us into the never-never land. This is the best feature anyone can ever hope to have. :-) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
