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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 12:36:30 -0400
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On 2013-08-26 10:11 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 09:16:44 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
>
>>> You can get ZFS on Linux with relative ease, you just have to build it
>>> yourself. Distros feel they can't redistribute that code.
>>
>> I know you can do this as a module - but is there an overlay or patch
>> to get it built directly into the kernel? I'd love to use ZFS on my
>> gentoo server, but I disable modules on servers for security reasons.
>
> You can do it. You have to unmask the kernel_builtin USE flag to stop zfs
> bringing in zfs_kmod, then unpack the sources and run the script to
> install them into the kernel tree.

<snip>

Very interesting, thanks... nice to know it can be done, but I wouldn't 
be uncomfortable doing that myself...

Would be nice if there was a kernel overlay for this...