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        throw0101a wrote 41 min ago:
        When setting up root-on-ZFS on FreeBSD, it's worth knowing about boot
        environments (a concept originally from Solaris):
        
        * [1] * [2] * [3] * [4] * [5] It lets you patch/upgrade an isolated
        environment without touching the running bits, reboot into that
        environment, and if things aren't working well boot back into the last
        known-good one.
        
  HTML  [1]: https://klarasystems.com/articles/managing-boot-environments/
  HTML  [2]: https://wiki.freebsd.org/BootEnvironments
  HTML  [3]: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bectl
  HTML  [4]: https://dan.langille.org/category/open-source/freebsd/bectl/
  HTML  [5]: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2022/03/14/zfs-boot-environment...
       
          polyduekes wrote 33 min ago:
          oh, i didnt knew the concept is taken from Solaris, which version of
          Solaris? and is there any official source that indicates it is from
          Solaris?
       
            throw0101a wrote 25 min ago:
            > bectl and this manual page were derived from beadm(8).
            
            * [1] > beadm(1M) originally appeared in Solaris.
            
            * [2] Solaris Live Upgrade worked with (mirrored) UFS root:
            
            * [3] * [4] It allowed/s for migration from UFS to ZFS root:
            
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  HTML      [1]: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bectl#end
  HTML      [2]: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=beadm#end
  HTML      [3]: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18752_01/html/821-1910/chapter...
  HTML      [4]: https://www.filibeto.org/sun/lib/solaris8-docs/_solaris8_2...
  HTML      [5]: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23823_01/html/E23801/ggavn.htm...
       
        TacticalCoder wrote 1 hour 31 min ago:
        This is getting lots of upvotes and rightfully so. I think people would
        love more posts about FreeBSD: especially about ZFS and bhyve (the
        FreeBSD hypervisor).
        
        It's a bit sad that this Lenovo ThinkCentre ain't using ECC. I use and
        know ZFS is good but I'd prefer to run it on a machine supporting ECC.
        
        I never tried FreeBSD but I'm reading more and more about it and it
        looks like although FreeBSD has always had its regular users, there are
        now quite some people curious about trying it out. For a variety of
        reasons. The possibility of having ZFS by default and an hypervisor
        without systemd is a big one for me (I run Proxmox so I'm halfway there
        but bhyve looks like it'd allow me to be completely systemd free).
        
        I'm running systemd-free VMs and systemd-free containers (long live
        non-systemd PID ones) so bhyve looks like it could the final piece of
        the puzzle to be free of Microsoft/Poettering's systemd.
       
          jccx70 wrote 19 min ago:
          "I think people would love more posts about FreeBSD"
          Translate to: "I would love more post..."
       
          grayxu wrote 1 hour 5 min ago:
          other filesystems are just as susceptible to data corruption from
          memory errors. this is not a weakness unique to ZFS.
       
       
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