On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 09:49:23AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote > 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***.
So instead of needing ZFS built into the kernel, you need ZFS built into GRUB... ***AND*** you need a ZFS module for the main system... ***AND*** you need to keep both versions in sync. I'm not impressed. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
