Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 18:47:00 +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: <20110204184700.025fa407@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <4D4C2A92.1000104@bally-wulff.de> References: <4D4BE50A.7000705@bally-wulff.de> <20110204141254.1dd98de8@ernst.jennejohn.org> <4D4C2A92.1000104@bally-wulff.de>
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On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:34:26 +0100 Luca Pizzamiglio <l.pizzamiglio@bally-wulff.de> wrote: > >> 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. > > > > Is that meanings that there's an error on handbook? How I (or we) could > improve it? > I wouldn't exactly call it an error. The statement is that it _could_ be intergrated into the kernel, but it's recommended to use a KLD instead. That's still valid, since it isn't stated the it _is_ integrated into the kernel. Right now gvinum is only available as a KLD. Whether that will ever change I can't even guess at. -- Gary Jennejohn
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