sparc64 snapshots, run inside an LDOM. Primary domain and the other 6 LDOMs are 6.1-STABLE.
I've put the snapshot LDOM through some paces with each snapshot: high CPU load, networking, and heavy filesystem utilization. It's every bit as solid as the other LDOMs. I have only seen the "relinking" message at the end of snapshot upgrades, but due to /bsd changing upon each reboot, I believe it is behaving exactly as Theo described. Right after last snapshot update an hour or so ago: MD5 (/bsd) = f9a2402b74004054a6118a41fc4cd310 MD5 (/bsd.booted) = c5ef22ec29b1a1a7a087821bab82361a MD5 (/bsd.rd) = e897b04724b2238845a4835c276c09ee MD5 (/bsd.sp) = 7c7672b16e08c7286dd7b2bd6855c6a2 A reboot a while later shows it did, indeed boot from the new kernel and put yet another random one in place for next time. MD5 (/bsd) = dc71b28e2a2945be876852fcc1c7b88c MD5 (/bsd.booted) = f9a2402b74004054a6118a41fc4cd310 MD5 (/bsd.rd) = e897b04724b2238845a4835c276c09ee MD5 (/bsd.sp) = 7c7672b16e08c7286dd7b2bd6855c6a2 dmesg: console is /virtual-devices@100/console@1 Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1995-2017 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. https://www.OpenBSD.org OpenBSD 6.1-current (GENERIC.MP) #176: Thu Jun 29 11:48:15 MDT 2017 dera...@sparc64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 8589934592 (8192MB) avail mem = 8421244928 (8031MB) mpath0 at root scsibus0 at mpath0: 256 targets mainbus0 at root: Sun Fire T200 cpu0 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1 (rev 0.0) @ 1200 MHz cpu1 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1 (rev 0.0) @ 1200 MHz cpu2 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1 (rev 0.0) @ 1200 MHz cpu3 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1 (rev 0.0) @ 1200 MHz vbus0 at mainbus0 "flashprom" at vbus0 not configured cbus0 at vbus0 vdsk0 at cbus0 chan 0x2: ivec 0x4, 0x5 scsibus1 at vdsk0: 2 targets sd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <SUN, Virtual Disk, 1.1> SCSI3 0/direct fixed sd0: 4000MB, 512 bytes/sector, 8192000 sectors vnet0 at cbus0 chan 0x3: ivec 0x6, 0x7, address 00:14:4f:f9:ec:c1 vcons0 at vbus0: ivec 0x111, console vrtc0 at vbus0 vscsi0 at root scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus3 at softraid0: 256 targets bootpath: /virtual-devices@100,0/channel-devices@200,0/disk@0,0 root on sd0a (a7b9335406dddaec.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b