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I remember just before Oracle took over Sun, OpenSolaris was a pretty viable desktop machine. They had a feature called "Time Slider" that was built into Nautil
by joseph 10y ago
I remember just before Oracle took over Sun, OpenSolaris was a pretty viable desktop machine. They had a feature called "Time Slider" that was built into Nautilus. It was like Apple's Time Machine, only based on ZFS snapshots instead of backups to a separate disk. You could slide a widget back to get to a previous snapshot of the disk. OS upgrades also worked together with ZFS snapshots so that you could atomically roll back to a previous version just before the upgrade took place. It was all really awesome.
- woodman 10y agoYeah, out of the box FreeBSD just barely scratches the surface when it comes to ZFS - there is a lot of untapped potential. Same story with jails and vnet.
- JdeBP 10y agoPC-BSD ... sorry ... TrueOS Desktop (and Server) has had that idea of ZFS snapshots for "boot environments" for some time. * https://blog.pcbsd.org/2012/07/9-1-feature-multiple-boot-environments/ https://blog.pcbsd.org/2012/07/9-1-feature-multiple-boot-env... * https://blog.pcbsd.org/2013/06/pc-bsd-status-update/ https://blog.pcbsd.org/2013/06/pc-bsd-status-update/ * https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/a-closer-look-at-the-changes-in-pc-bsd-trueos-9-2-part-1/ https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/a-closer-look-at-the-changes-... * https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/the-revamped-life-preserver/ https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/the-revamped-life-preserver/
- woodman 10y agoBeadm first appeared in Solaris, long before it hit FreeBSD (and then PC-BSD) - so the idea had been around for a while. The issue is fit and finish. Solaris had it tightly integrated and made full use of it. I haven't used PC-BSD for a very long time, but I don't remember it coming anywhere close to Solaris in that regard.