Re: kernel build failure

From: Rick Macklem <rmacklem_at_uoguelph.ca>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 00:33:47 +0000
Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 14:39-0700, Matthew Macy wrote:
>>
>> > Sorry guys, last time I touched ZFS I tried to push to make it an option to
>> > statically link and was actually told that it wasn't something anyone else
>> > wanted. The issue comes from ZFS not being in NOTES and thus not in LINT.
>>
>> If consensus is that "options ZFS" is no longer valid, then maybe
>> UPDATING should reflect the fact.
>>
>> I can live with loading zfs.ko and opensolaris.ko at boot time, but I
>> think this is a step backwards.
>
>Please no, I can think of no sound reason that you should be
>forced to use modules.
I thought that ZFS was required to be a module because of the licensing
terms (they didn't want any CDDL code in the core kernel)?

rick
Received on Mon Aug 13 2018 - 22:33:49 UTC

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