freebsd stable - Feb 2015 - FreeBSD ZFS with Boot Environments (Was: 10.1-RELEASE: bsdinstall on zfs: /var and /usr on zroot/ROOT/default)

Raphael Eiselstein wrote on 02/09/2015 00:26:

[...]
> Having a BE is cool stuff I guess, but it lacks some documentation (at
> least in FreeBSD handbook).
>
> I found just a side note about "boot environments" in the
"FreeBSD
> handbook":
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-partitioning.html
>
> Is there some "official" documentation about boot environments?
>
> Searching the web for 'site:freebsd.org zfs "boot
environment"' I found
> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/howto-freebsd-zfs-madness.31662/
> So is this "official" or mainstream or just a experimental hack
or a poc?
BE is heavily used by PC-BSD, so you can try to look for some 
documentation on pcbsd.org.

Miroslav Lachman

On Feb 8, 2015, at 6:45 PM, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz> wrote:
> Raphael Eiselstein wrote on 02/09/2015 00:26:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Having a BE is cool stuff I guess, but it lacks some documentation (at
>> least in FreeBSD handbook).
>> 
>> I found just a side note about "boot environments" in the
"FreeBSD
>> handbook":
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-partitioning.html
>> 
>> Is there some "official" documentation about boot
environments?
>> 
>> Searching the web for 'site:freebsd.org zfs "boot
environment"' I found
>> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/howto-freebsd-zfs-madness.31662/
>> So is this "official" or mainstream or just a experimental
hack or a poc?
> 
> BE is heavily used by PC-BSD, so you can try to look for some documentation
on pcbsd.org.

See, also, the sysutils/beadm port for how to create and use boot environments
under FreeBSD.

I don't know if the bsdinstall ZFS partitioning option is compatible with
sysutils/beadm boot environments, but, from what I've seen in this thread,
it looks like it is.

Cheers,

Paul.