Re: Beadm can't create snapshot

From: Patrick M. Hausen <pmh_at_hausen.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 08:56:51 UTC
Hi,

> Am 22.08.2022 um 10:45 schrieb Peter Jeremy <peterj@freebsd.org>:
> 
> On 2022-Aug-17 18:07:20 +0200, "Patrick M. Hausen" <pmh@hausen.com> wrote:
>> Isn't beadm retired in favour of bectl?
> 
> bectl still has a number of bugs:
> 1) The output from "bectl list" is in filesystem/bename order rather
>   than creation date order.  This is an issue if you use (eg) git
>   commit hashes as the name.
> 2) "bectl activate" doesn't update /boot/loader.conf so the wrong
>   root filesystem is mounted.

You mean the vfs.root.mountfrom option? I thought that, too, was deprecated and
replaced by the bootfs property of the zpool.

I don't have vfs.root.mountfrom anywhere and bectl sets the active BE just as expected.
The bootfs property changes accordingly.

Kind regards,
Patrick