Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 14:12:54 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> To: Luca Pizzamiglio <l.pizzamiglio@bally-wulff.de> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: building kernel including GEOM_VINUM Message-ID: <20110204141254.1dd98de8@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <4D4BE50A.7000705@bally-wulff.de> References: <4D4BE50A.7000705@bally-wulff.de>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:37:46 +0100 Luca Pizzamiglio <l.pizzamiglio@bally-wulff.de> wrote: > I'm Luca and I use FreeBSD for more than one year. And I'm happy for > that! I'm using 7.3 and 8.1. > I started to use gvinum+geli and everything is fine. > But I've a little problem: for a specific update procedure, I need to > build a kernel which includes Vinum, without module. > And why do you need it in the kernel? If you load it from /boot/loader.conf it will be running when the machine enters user mode. Or don't you want to have any modules? > I read on FreeBSD > handbook that is possible (but not raccomended), but I don't find how... > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-config.html > > I missed something or GEOM_VINUM is available just as a module? > It would probably require some major hacking. Apparently gvinum was designed with using it only as a KLD in mind. -- Gary Jennejohn
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20110204141254.1dd98de8>