Solaris features in FreeBSD

[Bryan Drewery]

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On 5/31/2012 3:45 PM, Chris Nehren wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 17:20:04 +0200 , Oliver Fromme wrote:
> And speaking of Solaris features...
> 
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 19:13:32 +0100 , Matthew Seaman wrote:
>> This sort of operation is something that ZFS boot environment support
>> (recently committed to HEAD, due for MFC within the month) makes much,
>> much safer and easier to deal with.  You don't need to do a separate
>> reboot to test the kernel as you've still got an entire kernel+world in
>> the previous BE to fall back on.
> 
> This is *awesome*. /me removes yet another item from the "reasons to use
> Solaris" list. I cannot wait to try this out.
> 

ZFS Boot Environments are supported even without the HEAD changes.

Some ports/scripts to assist:

beadm Solaris-like script:
sysutils/beadm (see http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=31662)

Another:
manageBE (http://anonsvn.h3q.com/projects/freebsd-patches/wiki/manageBE)

Regards,
Bryan Drewery
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