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> It makes this the new boot environment, and at reboot, you boot into the updated system.

So you have to reboot to apply the changes? Sounds familiar :)




Unbelievable, right? One could instead do a zfs snapshot and retain everything. You don't even need zfs for snapshots. UFS could do it for ages.


You can always overwrite in place (that was how it worked before beadm), but it's riskier.




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