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Date:      Tue, 14 Aug 2018 00:33:47 +0000
From:      Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no>
Cc:        Matthew Macy <mmacy@freebsd.org>, Michael Butler <imb@protected-networks.net>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: kernel build failure
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In-Reply-To: <201808131628.w7DGSvOm037857@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1808131129430.69607@mail.fig.ol.no>, <201808131628.w7DGSvOm037857@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>

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Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 14:39-0700, Matthew Macy wrote:
>>
>> > Sorry guys, last time I touched ZFS I tried to push to make it an opti=
on to
>> > statically link and was actually told that it wasn't something anyone =
else
>> > wanted. The issue comes from ZFS not being in NOTES and thus not in LI=
NT.
>>
>> If consensus is that "options ZFS" is no longer valid, then maybe
>> UPDATING should reflect the fact.
>>
>> I can live with loading zfs.ko and opensolaris.ko at boot time, but I
>> think this is a step backwards.
>
>Please no, I can think of no sound reason that you should be
>forced to use modules.
I thought that ZFS was required to be a module because of the licensing
terms (they didn't want any CDDL code in the core kernel)?

rick




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