Re: request: LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT

From: Aristedes Maniatis <ari_at_ish.com.au>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:31:02 +1100
On 17/11/09 6:21 PM, Nikolay Denev wrote:
> I've also thought about that, but I guess one of the issues is that this way
> FreeBSD will by default load CDDL-ed code, which may not be desirable.
> Probably a compromise would be to build two loaders by default, one with zfs support and the standard one.


I don't believe this is the issue since FreeBSD already comes with zfs.ko and opensolaris.ko already built by default. That is, it includes the CDDL code from ZFS itself. The boot loader is a FreeBSD invention (although probably built with pieces of code from the ZFS module).

Ari Maniatis

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