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'In this article, we’ll learn how ZFS boot environments (BEs) are used to boot the operating system itself into a previous point in time.' The whole article do

'In this article, we’ll learn how ZFS boot environments (BEs) are used to boot the operating system itself into a previous point in time.' The whole article does not touch the subject of boot environments ... Maybe the author can update the page and state that the article is about managing snapshots instead of boot environments?

beermonster 5y ago
I read the entire article as I was interested in that aspect too. Misleading title.
- vermaden 5y ago
  Here: https://is.gd/BECTL https://is.gd/BECTL
- 1MachineElf 5y ago
  A common pattern with beadm on FreeBSD is for the root filesystem dataset to be called "ROOT", and this mirrors what's in the main article. It appears this person has boot environments enabled, but didn't actually explain anything about them. ZFS boot environments are awesome. You can get them on both FreeBSD and Illumos with beadm. On Linux there are a number of utilities, but I've only used ZSys. It comes working out of the box if you do a ZFS-on-root install with Ubuntu.
5wp3 5y ago
Boot environment is just a fancy term for root filesystem clones created from snapshots. Fyi: snapshots are read-only. Normal, read-writable filesystem can be created by `zfs clone root@snap newroot`.
vermaden 5y ago
Here: https://is.gd/BECTL https://is.gd/BECTL