[OpenIndiana-discuss] Updates in OI

[Yassine Chaouche]

Le 5/4/21 à 1:43 PM, Stephan Althaus a écrit :
>
> Hello!
>
> We have "Boot environments"
>
> On every "pkg update" you get a new BE that will be used on next reboot.

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Is this done by issuing a ZFS snapshot of the whole root partition ? or
is it more granular ?

If this is done via snapshots, this means writing to an evergrowing file
on disk until the snapshot is removed. So the longer you keep a snapshot,
the bigger the file gets.

-- Yassine