beadm vs bectl

Allan Jude allanjude at freebsd.org
Mon Aug 27 22:22:20 UTC 2018


On 2018-08-27 14:50, Pete Wright wrote:
> hi there - i have a zfs based system where /boot is on its own pool. 
> beadm seems happy enough with this setup but bectl errors out like so:
> 
> $ sudo bectl list
> / and /boot not on same device, quitting
> $
> 
> $ beadm list
> BE                 Active Mountpoint  Space Created
> default            NR     /           47.6G 2018-03-02 20:30
> snapshot_02262018  -      -            1.5G 2018-03-03 14:38
> badresume_05122018 -      -            4.4G 2018-05-12 19:45
> 11_2_beta          -      -            2.6G 2018-05-13 18:26
> resume_works       -      -           12.6G 2018-06-01 16:45
> $
> 
> reading the manpage for bectl it doesn't mention this being an issue. 
> so i guess i have two questions:
> 1) is it a bad thing(tm) to have /boot on its own pool?
> 2) assuming that having /boot on its  own pool, why does bectl not work
> with this configuration?
> 
> thanks!
> -pete
> 

Your /boot being on a separate pool can never work, since you can't take
a consistent snapshot of / and have it include your kernel (which is
under /boot/kernel which is a separate pool)

Do you know why you have 2 separate pools? If it was for GELI support,
FreeBSD 12.0 will not require two separate pools anymore, and there will
be migration instructions shortly.

-- 
Allan Jude

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