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> This wouldn't be such a wasteful idea had they used file system snapshot differential block transfer a la ZFS send. That would have been so epic. They should
by codetrotter 3y ago
> This wouldn't be such a wasteful idea had they used file system snapshot differential block transfer a la ZFS send.
That would have been so epic. They should do that in FreeBSD. Take the macOS idea of having a separate protected partition for the base system, and combine that with the support for ZFS in FreeBSD to use ZFS snapshots to update the FreeBSD base OS, instead of having to run freebsd-update which applies a bunch of patches
- wkat4242 3y agoI don't really like that, because it would make it impossible to modify stuff that I want to modify. I moved to FreeBSD precisely because I wanted more control than Apple would give me (which is ever less of course). And freebsd-update works well, it can even validate files so you can see which have been manually changed. This is perfect for me, it's not a hard lock to what the provider decides but more of a suggestion.