Re: RFC: moving sysutils/fusefs-kmod to base system

Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> Unless I understand how the kernel does stuff there is no penalty for 
> having unused modules (except the size of the kernel that needs to be 
> loaded).   Keeping in mind that unless I am not reading stuff corectly 
> fusefs-kmod is the only FS related module that is not in the base 
> system.   Since any fundamental changes in the generic FS API seems to 
> break fusefs-kmod, and cause some very nasty effects that are almost 
> impossible to trace to fusefs-kmod (machine freezes so no output or core 
> dump)  it seems to make sense to move it to  the base system  (after all 
> we already do this with third party FS code like x/zfs)  by moving it we 
> force it to always compile instead of breaking

This can be done by documenting usage of make.conf PORTS_MODULES knob. 
Just a little notice in ports would suffice, not anybody out there 
compiles a new kernel daily.

 > (of course there can be
> other issues but as the FS API is updated fusefs-kmod is also updated to 
> use the new API)

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