Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:06:35 +0200 (CEST) From: vermaden <vermaden@interia.pl> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments) Message-ID: <fevmdkvupongnffnxnlm@lfdz> In-Reply-To: <clxl2caygm04w89vwv88ym8x.1335514646375@email.android.com> References: <clxl2caygm04w89vwv88ym8x.1335514646375@email.android.com>
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> Hi, >=20 > do you know manageBE? Google for it, it is the first > hit. This works for me like a charm since about a year. >=20 > Bye, > Alexander. Hi, yes I know and used manageBE for a while, I even mentioned it in the HOWTO (quote below) but thought that making *beadm* that is compatible with Illumos/Solaris version would be nice idea, *beadm* is also more comfortable to use, at least for me. Mine *beadm* has also a feature to activate BE's from other machines. =20 > Illumos/Solaris has the beadm(1M) [4] utility and while > Philipp Wuensche wrote the manageBE script as > replacement [5], it uses older style used at times when > OpenSolaris (and SUN) were still having a great time. > I last couple of days writing an up-to-date replacement for > FreeBSD compatible beadm utility, and with some tweaks > from today I just made it available at SourceForge [6] if You > wish to test it. Currently its about 200 lines long, so it should > be pretty simple to take a look at it. I tried to make it as > compatible as possible with the 'upstream' version, along > with some small improvements, it currently supports basic > functions like list, create, destroy and activate. (...) > There are several subtle differences between mine > implementation and Philipp's one, he defines and then relies > upon ZFS property called freebsd:boot-environment=3D1 for > each boot environment, I do not set any other additional > ZFS properties. There is already org.freebsd:swap property > used for SWAP on FreeBSD, so we may use org.freebsd:be in > the future, but is just a thought, right now its not used. My > version also supports activating boot environments received > with zfs recv command from other systems (it just updates > appreciate /boot/zfs/zpool.cache file). Regards, vermaden ...
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