On Sep 1, 2013 7:51 AM, "Mark David Dumlao" <madum...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 02:19:56PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote > > > >> So there seems to be no real need to create a static linux kernel > >> with ZFS inside. > > > > See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?full=1#book_part1_chap7 > > > >> Now go to File Systems and select support for the filesystems you use. > >> Don't compile the file system you use for the root filesystem as > >> module, otherwise your Gentoo system will not be able to mount > >> your partition. > > > > You can get away with most stuff as modules; ***BUT NOT THE ROOT > > FILESYSTEM***. Think about it for a minute. Gentoo reads modules off > > the disk. If the code for the root filesystem is a module, Gentoo would > > have to read the module off the disk to enable it to read the module off > > the disk... OOPS. This is a classic "chicken and egg" situation. > > And this is why the initrd was actually invented. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initrd > > It's a means of loading kernel modules so that the root filesystem can be > mounted as a module.
Not everyone is willing to use an initr* thingy. It's another potential breaking point. I have no problem with /usr being 'merged' with /, in fact I have been doing that for a couple of years now. But I will keep myself a mile away from an initr* thingy. Rgds, --
