On 10 May 2016 at 08:32, Glen Barber <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 08:25:22AM +0200, Thomas Zander wrote: >> On 10 May 2016 at 08:18, O. Hartmann <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I haven't figured out so far how far this goes. Lucky for those having >> > recent /etc/ backups. A pity FreeBSD doens't backup this by default. >> >> After having shot myself in the foot some time ago, "zfs snapshot" has >> become a part of my standard upgrade procedures :-) >> > > No argument that this is valuable, but we cannot rely on filesystem > specific solutions. Similar topic came up a few days ago following > lunch. It got me thinking of a better way to ensure this kind of thing > does not require home-grown foot protection from cannons.
Absolutely. I didn't mean to propose zfs snapshots as the one true solution. But since they saved me from a couple of late-in-the-night-mistakes in the past, we could have "make installworld / distribution" create a snapshot if the corresponding fs happens to be zfs. This could be enabled or disabled via a variable in make.conf. Best regards Riggs _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
