Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:40:33 +0200 From: Nikolay Denev <ndenev@gmail.com> To: Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: request: LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT Message-ID: <7DD81D94-82BF-455B-B472-4A7D97830AB0@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B025136.3060809@ish.com.au> References: <4B023061.7070203@ish.com.au> <DE05158C-A977-4564-B7F5-431F8841F853@gmail.com> <4B025136.3060809@ish.com.au>
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On 17 Nov, 2009, at 09:31 , Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > On 17/11/09 6:21 PM, Nikolay Denev wrote: >> I've also thought about that, but I guess one of the issues is that = this way >> FreeBSD will by default load CDDL-ed code, which may not be = desirable. >> Probably a compromise would be to build two loaders by default, one = with zfs support and the standard one. >=20 >=20 > I don't believe this is the issue since FreeBSD already comes with = zfs.ko and opensolaris.ko already built by default. That is, it includes = the CDDL code from ZFS itself. The boot loader is a FreeBSD invention = (although probably built with pieces of code from the ZFS module). >=20 > Ari Maniatis >=20 > --=20 > --------------------------> > ish > http://www.ish.com.au > Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia > phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 > GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A They are built by default, but not loaded in memory by default. That's = the difference. -- Regards, Nikolay Denev
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