This reminds me. I was reading the release and upgrade notes of OpenSolaris 2009.6 and noted one thing about upgrading from a previous version to the new one::
When you pick the "upgrade OS" option in the OpenSolaris installer, it will check if you are using a ZFS root partition and if you do, it intelligently suggests to take a current snapshot of the root filesystem. After you finish the upgrade and do a reboot, the boot menu offers you the option of booting the new upgraded version of the OS or alternatively _booting from the snapshot taken by the upgrade installation procedure_. Reading that made me pause for a second and made me go "WOW", this is how UNIX system upgrades should be done. Any hope of us lowly users ever seeing something like this implemented in FreeBSD? :) - Dan Naumov On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The system boots from a pair of drives in a gmirror. Mot because you can't > boot from ZFS, but because it's just so darn stable (and it predates the use > of ZFS). > > Really there are two camps here --- booting from ZFS is the use of ZFS as > the machine's own filesystem. This is one goal of ZFS that is somewhat > imperfect on FreeBSD at the momment. ZFS file servers are another goal > where booting from ZFS is not really required and only marginally > beneficial. > > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
