Re: Beadm can't create snapshot

From: Peter Jeremy <peterj_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 09:29:27 UTC
On 2022-Aug-22 10:56:51 +0200, "Patrick M. Hausen" <pmh@hausen.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>> 
>> 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've looking through mailing list archives and searched the 'net and
haven't found anything saying vfs.root.mountfrom is deprecated.
loader(8) mentions that it will fallback to using "currdev" if there's
no root entry in /etc/fstab and vfs.root.mountfrom isn't set.

At the very least, it's an undocumented incompatibility between beadm
and bectl: I can't take an existing system that's using beadm and just
switch to using bectl.

-- 
Peter Jeremy