Anyone got ZFS working on their Gentoo install? I'm contemplating it, but the wiki[1] confuses me a bit. Specifically, section '3 Installing into the kernel directory (for static installs)' states: This will generate the needed files, and copy them into the kernel sources directory. root # (cd /var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/spl-9999/work/spl-9999 && ./copy-builtin /usr/src/linux) root # (cd /var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/zfs-kmod-9999/work/zfs-kmod-9999/ && ./copy-builtin /usr/src/linux) After this, you just need to edit the kernel config to enable CONFIG_SPL and CONFIG_ZFS and emerge the zfs binaries. root # mkdir -p /etc/portage/profile root # echo 'sys-fs/zfs -kernel-builtin' >> /etc/portage/profile/package.use.mask root # echo 'sys-fs/zfs kernel-builtin' >> /etc/portage/package.use root # emerge -1v sys-fs/zfs The echo's only need to be run once, but the emerge needs to be run every time you install a new version of zfs.
Do you really need to copy the files into the kernel tree? WTD is a 'static install' in this context? 'emerge zfs' shows: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] sys-fs/zfs-0.6.1 USE="rootfs -custom-cflags (-kernel-builtin) -static-libs -test-suite" 1,500 kB [ebuild N ] sys-fs/zfs-kmod-0.6.1 USE="rootfs -custom-cflags -debug" 0 kB [ebuild N ] sys-kernel/spl-0.6.1 USE="-custom-cflags -debug -debug-log" 209 kB which seems to pull in the daemon and the kmod so wouldn't the zfs-kmod ebuild build against the current kernel and drop in the modules directory all by itself much like any of the 100s of FUSE modules do? Any clarification on the install process would be appreciated. [1] - http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ZFS -- Douglas J Hunley (doug.hun...@gmail.com) Twitter: @hunleyd Web: douglasjhunley.com G+: http://goo.gl/sajR3
