Actually he likely means Boot Environments. On OpenSolaris or Solaris 11 you would use the pkg/ beadm commands. Previous Solaris used Live Upgrade.
See the documentation for IPS. -- bdha On Nov 9, 2010, at 2:56, Tomas Ögren <st...@acc.umu.se> wrote: > On 08 November, 2010 - Peter Taps sent me these 0,7K bytes: > >> Folks, >> >> My understanding is that there is a way to create a zfs "checkpoint" >> before doing any system upgrade or installing a new software. If >> there is a problem, one can simply rollback to the stable checkpoint. >> >> I am familiar with snapshots and clones. However, I am not clear on >> how to manage checkpoints. I would appreciate your help in how I can >> create, destroy and roll back to a checkpoint, and how I can list all >> the checkpoints. > > You probably refer to snapshots, as ZFS does not have checkpoints (and > is pretty much the same as a snapshot). > > /Tomas > -- > Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ > |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå > `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
