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On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 09:49:23AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote |
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> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > You can get away with most stuff as modules; ***BUT NOT THE ROOT |
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> > FILESYSTEM***. Think about it for a minute. Gentoo reads modules off |
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> > the disk. If the code for the root filesystem is a module, Gentoo would |
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> > have to read the module off the disk to enable it to read the module off |
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> > the disk... OOPS. This is a classic "chicken and egg" situation. |
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> On Solaris no problem with loadable modules - everything is |
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> dynamically loaded. ***YOU NEED A GRUB THAT UNDERSTANDS ZFS AND THAT |
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> GIVES A ZFS INTERFACE TO THE KERNEL TO USE BEFORE ZFS WAS LOADED***. |
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So instead of needing ZFS built into the kernel, you need ZFS built |
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into GRUB... ***AND*** you need a ZFS module for the main system... |
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***AND*** you need to keep both versions in sync. I'm not impressed. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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