FreeBSD ZFS with Boot Environments (Was: 10.1-RELEASE: bsdinstall on zfs: /var and /usr on zroot/ROOT/default)

[Paul Mather]

On Feb 8, 2015, at 6:45 PM, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz> wrote:

> Raphael Eiselstein wrote on 02/09/2015 00:26:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Having a BE is cool stuff I guess, but it lacks some documentation (at
>> least in FreeBSD handbook).
>> 
>> I found just a side note about "boot environments" in the "FreeBSD
>> handbook": https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-partitioning.html
>> 
>> Is there some "official" documentation about boot environments?
>> 
>> Searching the web for 'site:freebsd.org zfs "boot environment"' I found
>> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/howto-freebsd-zfs-madness.31662/
>> So is this "official" or mainstream or just a experimental hack or a poc?
> 
> BE is heavily used by PC-BSD, so you can try to look for some documentation on pcbsd.org.


See, also, the sysutils/beadm port for how to create and use boot environments under FreeBSD.

I don't know if the bsdinstall ZFS partitioning option is compatible with sysutils/beadm boot environments, but, from what I've seen in this thread, it looks like it is.

Cheers,

Paul.