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		_abox on May 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server ZFS on root is really amazing on FreeBSD and the advantage is that you can snapshot your boot drive.

mvanbaak on May 29, 2022 [–]

have a look at Boot Environments. It really is amazing.

_abox on May 29, 2022 | [–]

Yes I know, bectl. I use it.

I just didn't want to mention it because the discussion was mainly about Linux. But FreeBSD has a really strong toolchain for this indeed.

indigodaddy on May 30, 2022 | | [–]

Also a Solaris thing, yeah? (beadm etc)

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