From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 9 20:39:39 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0381A554 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2014 20:39:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from avasout08.plus.net (avasout08.plus.net [212.159.14.20]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "Bizanga Labs SMTP Client Certificate", Issuer "Bizanga Labs CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5EDC269E29 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2014 20:39:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk ([84.92.153.232]) by avasout08 with smtp id DYfT1p005516WCc01YfVff; Sun, 09 Nov 2014 20:39:29 +0000 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=Q/tc4uGa c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:117 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:17 a=D7rCoLxHAAAA:8 a=0Bzu9jTXAAAA:8 a=GIpPufGBusUA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=EBWvu-OkHNOLpmhCq6IA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=4FIpjDME4CUA:10 a=Y7ysO0jyrWAA:10 a=9I1xgM2Dza8A:10 Received: from sedbergh.lan ([192.168.1.13] helo=curlew.lan) by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1XnZGh-0002fK-JB for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2014 20:39:27 +0000 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 20:39:26 +0000 Message-ID: <2639372.RulFH7jES0@curlew.lan> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.2 (FreeBSD/10.1-RC1-p1; KDE/4.14.2; amd64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <545ED36B.8040207@gmail.com> <545F7B85.1050900@qeng-ho.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.13 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on curlew.lan X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Subject: Re: what's a BE (related to Where do user files go these days?) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 20:39:39 -0000 On Sunday 09 Nov 2014 13:15:28 doug wrote: > What's a BE? Boot Environment. Provides a way to have various "versions" of your system in ZFS pool without using much extra disk space and be able to choose to boot into any of the environments using sysutils/beadm. http://forums.freebsd.org/threads/howto-freebsd-zfs-madness.31662/ -- Mike Clarke