Show HN: Zectl – ZFS Boot Environment Manager for Linux

Finally. I got used to this on solaris 10 and missed it until FreeBSD got it.. ZFS and beadm are the included in the reasons i continue to run FreeBSD as a workstation, but these days with k8s and such I do tend to run a lot of linux VMs to do my daily work (devops stuff)...<p>The work lappy runs ubuntu with zfs on root, and it&#x27;s pretty seamless, I&#x27;m very much onboard with it having boot environments! (zsys)

This looks nice. Going to have to give it a try.<p>I&#x27;d love to see automated ZFS-on-root setup, but suspect that&#x27;ll have to come from Canonical if we ever get it.

Oh, this is cool! We&#x27;ll need to check out this plugin mechanism as a thought for bectl -- it&#x27;s fairly inflexible at the moment.<p>libze_util_temporary_mount would be a good candidate for using (or being replaced by?) the recently-introduced zfs_mount_at in libzfs once that&#x27;s widely available enough. That was a fairly trivial addition to libzfs that was initially made to support libbe&#x27;s be_mount(), which previously used the effectively non-portable amount() [post-mortem: should read zmount, but autocorrect is alwayscorrect]

Big thanks to the developers&#x2F;John for creating ZFS Linux boot manager!

Looks cool. Currently only one machine which I have with zfs is NixOS, which has it own mechanism to handle such versioning, or do you see some advantages of using zfs approach?

With encryption support?