Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote:

>   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.

On Solaris no problem with loadable modules - everything is dynamically loaded.
You need a grub that understands ZFS and that gives a ZFS interface to the 
kernel to use before ZFS was loaded.

Jörg

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