From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C63C1381F3 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 00:36:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 114F7E0DE6; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 00:36:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-f169.google.com (mail-lb0-f169.google.com [209.85.217.169]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BDE49E0DD9 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 00:36:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f169.google.com with SMTP id z5so2305008lbh.28 for ; Sat, 31 Aug 2013 17:36:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=dc7gByq+oy6KU4pDqJy/pHbNusaSol1P3nbafiJXI9w=; b=krf7GFX3OY6rhyoaPCtr/+4DutIFzwEWAHOD5bOqHwFgRKLlODdGs/cKyFmy0eq5Ja pq+NNd6cruUlqN1DrMxiRdFHxNvlz2YlQDHM5OG4u5Nrz0r53zbJmwrkRx1IW2fpMGdi +VZVjHEntYfhKxgUcUUG1tLgz29Yf96gfN2NDrVkSdI8b0h4JCWKcabhKu1daj9x6Pkx rSIXILfQwghqMH65J4/WAKZkhmCC63DmI3DWDPiE+ZYwH1+D7VquIowMNdTRio48jA6i 1W+gTGeSahNG4q5KCqvOO58owPYzUfgfxKvuK10Zg91q3zIzuXNTNJWTcVjNMz/FWdAN ZcfQ== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.146.33 with SMTP id sz1mr14032356lbb.14.1377995801769; Sat, 31 Aug 2013 17:36:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.96.2 with HTTP; Sat, 31 Aug 2013 17:36:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130901001352.GB19271@waltdnes.org> References: <20130831120831.GA25399@pacific.net.au> <5221df6c.WS8p51iIG1y/cHXy%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> <20130901001352.GB19271@waltdnes.org> Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 19:36:41 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 754f7ae6-3c10-474e-ac02-3530ffa7d766 X-Archives-Hash: c47d39b19aed1a7ae9baedb3878495cc On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Walter Dnes 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=3D1#boo= k_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. --=20 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingenier=C3=ADa de la Computaci=C3=B3n Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico