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On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 10:47:35AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote |
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> Mark David Dumlao <madumlao@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > At what point does grub "present a zfs interface for the kernel to use"? |
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> After it booted the kernel |
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> You may not know dynamic kernels as Linux is a static kernel that |
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> just may load additional modules _after_ it mounted the root fs. |
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> Solaris is dynamic from the beginning: |
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> - no static loading at all |
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> - no predefined data sizes - everything is allocated |
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> - no predefined major device numbers - numbers are assigned at first load |
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> Grub works this way: |
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> 1) It loads /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix |
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Question... how does it read that file off a ZFS partition? OK, so |
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ZFS code has to be installed statically into GRUB instead of statically |
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into the kernel. Please stop the shell game. |
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Note also that this is a Gentoo *LINUX* mailing list. We're more |
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concerned about how Linux works. |
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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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