Confused with Boot Environments: clone or create ?

[Black Ninja]

I upgraded without any negative impact. I can't guarantee that you won't have any problem, but I don't understand the idea of not installing upgrades, even if a problem does crop up.

Well , that's one of those things that I won't be able to convince you unless you come up with the conclusion yourself. It's like when somebody says : What wrong with apple ? or Windows 10 ? or Why Wired LAN is better then Wifi ? It's just a conclusion, that I see very obvious, but I guess one have to get there by itself to see it.So wouldn't go there.

We have been covering this for a couple days. I thought it was already decided.

@toadman said exactly How he would do it and besides the fact that I agree with him, I am still interested in your opinion if You agree or not. I mean We could be wrong, so I don't want to dismiss anyone opinion.


P.S. I think this feature(boot environments) is very powerful and don't won't go through it without full understanding. On the other hand I could dump the whole "jails" thing in the garbage, and disregard the idea of freenas as hypervisor , but that's just me. I think I have much better solution for hypervisor or plex transcoder , but I realize a lot of people like the idea of "one box for everything" and are using all these features and even ask if more could be added.

 

[Black Ninja]

At the end of day we still don't know what is the difference between "clone" and "create" in boot environments. ?:(

 

[msbxa]

This is my current boot environment: I am booting at freenas-boot/ROOT/11.1-U7 after many problems with freenas-boot/ROOT/11.2-U6 i rolled back to 11.1-U7. Now I need to delete freenas-boot/ROOT/11.2-U6 that shows "On Reboot" and start over again, any idea how to do delete 11.2-U6 latest?

root@PRODNAS2:~ # zfs list
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
freenas-boot 2.93G 11.2G 64K none
freenas-boot/ROOT 2.92G 11.2G 29K none
freenas-boot/ROOT/11.1-U5 328K 11.2G 839M /
freenas-boot/ROOT/11.1-U7 354K 11.2G 746M /
freenas-boot/ROOT/11.2-U6 2.91G 11.2G 765M /
freenas-boot/ROOT/Initial-Install 1K 11.2G 637M legacy
freenas-boot/ROOT/Wizard-2018-06-20_21-24-31 1K 11.2G 638M legacy

one more thing I do not want to install 11.2 U6 from scratch because i will loose rolling back in case their is a problems. Found the answer very quickly deleting "On Reboot" is a bad idea, any comments?.

Update: The only way to delete the latest environment is to go back one step and for me it was by activate freenas-boot/ROOT/11.1-U5 first and reboot, then delete the latest boot evironment which is freenas-boot/ROOT/11.2-U6 after that i decided to activate boot env freenas-boot/ROOT/11.1-U7 and reboot. Everything now is order to upgrade again to 11.2-U6.