Re: ZFS / Boot Environments / Jails / Upgrading form Source Code

2012-10-19 Thread dweimer
On 2012-10-19 02:48, Shane Ambler wrote: On 19/10/2012 07:44, dweimer wrote: First step replace the usr/src within the jail with new source using svn, easy enough. Then start make buildworld... oops, I have a problem now, the usr/obj/usr stuff is now under /usr/obj/usr/jails/release91rc2...,

Re: ZFS / Boot Environments / Jails / Upgrading form Source Code

2012-10-19 Thread Shane Ambler
On 19/10/2012 07:44, dweimer wrote: First step replace the usr/src within the jail with new source using svn, easy enough. Then start make buildworld... oops, I have a problem now, the usr/obj/usr stuff is now under /usr/obj/usr/jails/release91rc2..., However I want it to be under /usr/jails/r

ZFS / Boot Environments / Jails / Upgrading form Source Code

2012-10-18 Thread dweimer
perhaps it is a better option to make a new zfs data set outside the boot environments to mount under /usr/obj directory, let the default prefixes handle which sub directory to use, and just delete the directories when I am done working with the boot environment. -- Thanks, Dean E. Weim

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-07 Thread vermaden
> Emacs indents it nicely, and colorizes the > keywords so that it stands out. Indentification is not a problem, it work both in geany and vim. Probably I haven't made clear what I meant ;) Take a look at this picture: http://ompldr.org/vZG50bQ The brackets in that specific section (asd) are hi

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "vermaden" == vermaden writes: >> Good to see you've finally been burned. >> You'll never make that mistake again. :) vermaden> I liked that syntax: vermaden> ASD && { vermaden> asd vermaden> } || { vermaden> bsd vermaden> } vermaden> mostly because of syntax highlighting, to be pre

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-07 Thread vermaden
> Good to see you've finally been burned. > You'll never make that mistake again. :) I liked that syntax: ASD && { asd } || { bsd } mostly because of syntax highlighting, to be precise highlighting of the second bracket of a pair at editors, nor VIM neither GEANY highlight if/then/elif/else/

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
gt; # chmod +x beadm vermaden> # ./beadm list vermaden> # ./beadm activate be vermaden> # reboot vermaden> Now You should have a working system with boot environments. OK, I'll give that a try. Thanks for being persistent with me. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread vermaden
adm list # ./beadm activate be # reboot Now You should have a working system with boot environments. Both GitHub and SourceForce have the latest fixed *beadm* version. Regards, vermaden -- ... ___ freebsd-questi

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Bryan Drewery
On 5/4/2012 5:10 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz writes: > > Randal> Oh wait, it looks like zroot is still holding 1.04G of data... will > Randal> that ever go away? Shouldn't all the data be in the /ROOT/xxx > Randal> items? > > And worse, the things from t

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz writes: Randal> This is FreeBSD 8.2. And no difference on 8.3 :( Should there have been a "promote" in there somewhere? It looks like the boot env is still dependent on the very old zroot. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 5

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz writes: Randal> Oh wait, it looks like zroot is still holding 1.04G of data... will Randal> that ever go away? Shouldn't all the data be in the /ROOT/xxx Randal> items? And worse, the things from the readme don't work: locohost# ./beadm create upgrade cannot

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz writes: > "vermaden" == vermaden writes: vermaden> # fetch https://github.com/vermaden/beadm/blob/master/beadm Randal> and after reboot, "zfs set mountpoint=none zroot" would also seem to Randal> clean that up. Oh wait, it looks like zroot is still hold

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "vermaden" == vermaden writes: vermaden> # fetch https://github.com/vermaden/beadm/blob/master/beadm Heh. That's HTML. I think you want fetch https://raw.github.com/vermaden/beadm/master/beadm vermaden> # chmod +x beadm vermaden> # ./beadm list vermaden> # ./beadm activate default ver

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread vermaden
> I have zfs-on-root using the classical documentation (everything under > zpool, possibly with some sub-mounts, but I've left those out lately). > > Is there a way to transition my system to a form that beadm expects? > I tried just running it, and it's upset that zpool/ROOT doesn't exist. Hi,

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "vermaden" == vermaden writes: vermaden> I have just created new HOWTO [1] on how to use Boot Environments on vermaden> FreeBSD with new created utility *beadm* that I put on vermaden> SourceForge [2]. I have zfs-on-root using the classical documentation

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-03 Thread vermaden
"Kalle Møller" : > And I forgot > > If I do a create and destroy, I would assume my system > was back to same state, but you keep the snapshot > when I destroy the clone, dont know if its working as > intended (better safe to keep it than sorry) or you just > didn't think of it :) I added automat

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-03 Thread 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@snapshot] beName > > I read it as you can do the following > > beadm create beName@snapshot be

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-02 Thread Kalle Møller
t correct or is it > > beadm create -e beName@snapshot beName > > Well neither of those seems to work for me, can you give an example of the > use? > > Thanks > > Kalle > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:08 AM, vermaden wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have just

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-02 Thread Kalle Møller
that correct or is it beadm create -e beName@snapshot beName Well neither of those seems to work for me, can you give an example of the use? Thanks Kalle On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:08 AM, vermaden wrote: > Hi, > > I have just created new HOWTO [1] on how to use Boot Environments on

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-04-27 Thread vermaden
dditional > ZFS properties. There is already org.freebsd:swap property > used for SWAP on FreeBSD, so we may use org.freebsd:be in > the future, but is just a thought, right now its not used. My > version also supports activating boot environments received > with zfs recv

HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-04-26 Thread vermaden
Hi, I have just created new HOWTO [1] on how to use Boot Environments on FreeBSD with new created utility *beadm* that I put on SourceForge [2]. Feel free to send Your ideas/critique about it. [1] http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=31662 [2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/beadm

Re: Boot Environments

2011-06-30 Thread krad
On 30 June 2011 08:43, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > On solaris you can have different BE's (boot environments) using ZFS. > Is this possible with FreeBSD ZFS? I can't recall ever have seen a tool > like BEadm (solaris). > But maybe using ZFS manual

Boot Environments

2011-06-30 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On solaris you can have different BE's (boot environments) using ZFS. Is this possible with FreeBSD ZFS? I can't recall ever have seen a tool like BEadm (solaris). But maybe using ZFS manually I can get more BE's? ___ freebsd-questi