On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 8:13 AM, 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.
And this is why the initrd was actually invented. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initrd It's a means of loading kernel modules so that the root filesystem can be mounted as a module. -- This email is: [ ] actionable [x] fyi [ ] social Response needed: [ ] yes [ ] up to you [x] no Time-sensitive: [ ] immediate [ ] soon [x] none
