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On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
>
> ZoL (ZFS on Linux) nowadays is implemented using DKMS instead of FUSE, thus
> running in kernelspace, and (relatively) easier to put into an initramfs.
>
> Updating is a beeyotch on binary-based distros as it requires a recompile.
> Not a big deal for us Gentooers :-)

dkms works perfectly well on binary distros; it's a Dell/RH creation.
It runs "make ..." to build a kernel module and then installs it.