On Sep 2, 2013 5:21 AM, "Walter Dnes" <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > > 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***.
I'm confused as to what this means. Grub reads a filesystem, loads a kernel with options, and may give it an initrd. What happens from then on is none of grub's business. The filesystem it reads from and the one the kernel uses may be completely unrelated - this is why we have /boot filesystems. At what point does grub "present a zfs interface for the kernel to use"?
