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> It makes this the new boot environment, and at reboot, you boot into the updated system. So you have to reboot to apply the changes? Sounds familiar :)

• loeg 10y ago
  You can always overwrite in place (that was how it worked before beadm), but it's riskier.
• jxy 10y ago
  Unbelievable, right? One could instead do a zfs snapshot and retain everything. You don't even need zfs for snapshots. UFS could do it for ages.