Walter Dnes <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
On Solaris no problem with loadable modules - everything is dynamically loaded. You need a grub that understands ZFS and that gives a ZFS interface to the kernel to use before ZFS was loaded. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
