Re: altroot

Stephen Borrill <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel
Message-ID <Pine.NEB.4.64.2411131123221.1680@ugly> 
On Tue, 12 Nov 2024, Edgar Fuß wrote:
>> It would be of limited use for repairing broken systems in any case,
>
> My use case would not be repairing a broken system but to install two
> versions in parallel. So I could update a mission-critical system and
> instantly roll back in case it exhibits any problems with the new version.

Someone (TM) ought to implement ZFS boot environments:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/BootEnvironments

I guess some of the hurdle have already been addressed:
https://wiki.netbsd.org/root_on_zfs/

-- 
Stephen
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