On 8/14/18 1:35 AM, Matthew Macy wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 5:33 PM Rick Macklem <rmack...@uoguelph.ca> wrote: > >> Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >>>> On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 14:39-0700, Matthew Macy wrote: >>>> >>>>> Sorry guys, last time I touched ZFS I tried to push to make it an >> option to >>>>> statically link and was actually told that it wasn't something anyone >> else >>>>> wanted. The issue comes from ZFS not being in NOTES and thus not in >> LINT. >>>> >>>> If consensus is that "options ZFS" is no longer valid, then maybe >>>> UPDATING should reflect the fact. >>>> >>>> I can live with loading zfs.ko and opensolaris.ko at boot time, but I >>>> think this is a step backwards. >>> >>> Please no, I can think of no sound reason that you should be >>> forced to use modules. >> I thought that ZFS was required to be a module because of the licensing >> terms (they didn't want any CDDL code in the core kernel)? >> > > It can't be in _GENERIC_ for that reason. There's no reason it can't be in > LINT or end users can't configure a CDDL tainted kernel.
It should definitely be in sys/conf/NOTES. That may have just been oversight of whoever finally fixed 'options ZFS' to work. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
