On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 02:19:56PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote > >> So there seems to be no real need to create a static linux kernel >> with ZFS inside. > > See > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?full=1#book_part1_chap7 > >> Now go to File Systems and select support for the filesystems you use. >> Don't compile the file system you use for the root filesystem as >> module, otherwise your Gentoo system will not be able to mount >> your partition. > > 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.
I usally use ext4 as filesystem. # lsmod|grep ext ext3 100768 0 jbd 39586 1 ext3 ext2 49572 0 ext4 263621 1 crc16 1255 2 ext4,bluetooth mbcache 4450 3 ext2,ext3,ext4 jbd2 48679 1 ext4 Isn't great what an initramfs can do? Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
