The purpose of this project is to build a convenient framework for managing ZFS
boot environments in FreeBSD. Currently, boot environments are managed
manually, or with scripts such as beadm
. The approach that this project
will take is to first create a boot environment library to offer simplified
boot environment interaction to userspace applications (for example, TrueOS'
SysAdm perhaps), and then write an application that provides users with a
command that retains all of the features of beadm
, with added
functionality. Among the new features are: the ability to recursively create
boot environments containing child datasets, the ability to activate an
environment for the next boot only, and the ability to attach/detach a boot
environment to a jail.