On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 5:33 PM Rick Macklem <rmacklem_at_uoguelph.ca> wrote: > 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 If consensus is that "options ZFS" is no longer valid, then maybe 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)? > It can't be in _GENERIC_ for that reason. There's no reason it can't be in LINT or end users can't configure a CDDL tainted kernel. -M > rick > >Received on Mon Aug 13 2018 - 22:35:31 UTC
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