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On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 02:19:56PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote |
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>> So there seems to be no real need to create a static linux kernel |
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>> with ZFS inside. |
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> See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?full=1#book_part1_chap7 |
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>> Now go to File Systems and select support for the filesystems you use. |
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>> Don't compile the file system you use for the root filesystem as |
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>> module, otherwise your Gentoo system will not be able to mount |
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>> your partition. |
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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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I usally use ext4 as filesystem. |
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# lsmod|grep ext |
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ext3 100768 0 |
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jbd 39586 1 ext3 |
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ext2 49572 0 |
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ext4 263621 1 |
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crc16 1255 2 ext4,bluetooth |
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mbcache 4450 3 ext2,ext3,ext4 |
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jbd2 48679 1 ext4 |
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Isn't great what an initramfs can do? |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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