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 3FEC11388E5 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 03:45:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E91FFE090B; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 03:45:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-f45.google.com (mail-la0-f45.google.com [209.85.215.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BCCF7E08CA for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 03:45:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f45.google.com with SMTP id gm9so5593272lab.18 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:45:08 -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; bh=fOjykdUbKgR5tXJYgk5Pl988eKIlXBwN8AwhNkrdfxo=; b=iVnpD8SoVikmC/lblpcgsvVHDdy0pWatYdD0XNMFaTSC1tB02dMYCQVi0xQllcdXNg wQwUyHk7DKLmOk0YJjFhPMlX8v1Wt6su4RsZxU+2zFME8DLmnqebiUT0rUkQAN1pkne4 aCRct9CZ3PoVhhjxSE3zOTkX9dzj1/P0wM/i/OdLIlimvf9uquAs0yspBlgZqWYrlK2u +6KxiIfezSIXYhTsK65Cuc1O9KEH5oFzkTi9w5FpDUCO0vk/1+m86w2THG1rP2ozcVcR hNwiciJdEYEl9mCNf9TMvrHsVtTVlrtsrFGhwzna4am1D9KIfY7Pa0nBoQo6XHYokry8 AH6A== 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 10.152.44.233 with SMTP id h9mr569728lam.73.1414467908059; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:45:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.152.22.168 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:45:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <201410270924.40381.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <544E2875.5000309@gmail.com> <201410271522.32452.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 23:45:08 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Safeguarding strategies against SSD data loss From: Tom H To: Gentoo User Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 0593832f-fdc6-4985-aa12-efefc2e5fb0c X-Archives-Hash: 57c2ee99212ba30faffbcff141025a54 On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Pandu Poluan 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.