HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

[vermaden]

Hi,

> I just tested your tool the last few days and I must say I love
> it already. Though I can get one of the commands to work
> - might be me or the syntax
> 
> beadm create [-e nonActiveBe | beName at snapshot] beName
> 
> I read it as you can do the following
> 
> beadm create beName at snapshot beName
> 
> Is that correct or is it
> 
> beadm create -e beName at snapshot beName
> 
> Well neither of those seems to work for me, can you give an example of the use?
> 
> Thanks
> Kalle

There are only 3 possible ways:

1. beadm create beName - this will create BE beName from currently booted BE.

2. beadm create -e nonActiveBe beName - this will create BE beName from other BE called nonActiveBe

3. beadm create -e beName at snapshot beName - this will create BE beName from existing beName at snapshot snapshot

At least these are the same possibilities that beadm(1M) at Illumos/Solaris provides.

Hope that helps ;)

Regards,
vermaden

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