Can anybody here comment on the issues mentioned in this article:
SUMMARY: "I tried this, but didn't know exactly what I was doing, and it didn't work for me right away, so I quit. But my opinion is still important, so I'll print it."
That's not entirely fair of me, I know, but I have as strong a distaste for DistroWatch as I do for Phoronix. They're just not good sources of information, as folks running the sites speak authoritatively without really knowing what they're talking about. Here's something I found notable:
Jessie Smith said:
A little poking around revealed that the /boot directory was just a symbolic link to a location which did not exist. I set up the missing /boot directory and was then able to create boot environments. However, then I ran into a few other problems. At start-up time, I was unable to select alternative boot environments from the boot menu as no snapshots were listed in the boot menu. ... As I mentioned earlier, tools such as freebsd-update and freebsd-version were unable to detect my kernel version and I suspect this was related to the missing /boot directory. Though even after this directory had been created, these two programs still failed to work.
The issue here was that
bootpool was not mounted. Mounting it would have resolved these issues. Without knowing this and without bothering to inform himself (the system booted, after all---the
/boot directory has to be
somewhere), Mr. Smith blindly took a step that eliminated the error message without actually resolving the problem, then proceeded to dive deeper into a rabbit hole of his own making. Now, the fact that
bootpool was not mounted is something worth bringing up, since (as the reviewer already noted) a missing
/boot directory impacts kernel updates, and I believe that while the issue remains in the current installer it has already been addressed by developers. But the fact that the reviewer "fixed" a problem without knowing what the actual problem was---possibly breaking other things in the process---adds a taint to the assessment from that point on...