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Date:      Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:14:39 +0000
From:      krad <kraduk@googlemail.com>
To:        Nikolay Denev <ndenev@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au>
Subject:   Re: request: LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT
Message-ID:  <d36406630911170114n20fd87b7jfd3fa383048f6d2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7DD81D94-82BF-455B-B472-4A7D97830AB0@gmail.com>
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2009/11/17 Nikolay Denev <ndenev@gmail.com>

> 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.
> >
> >
> > 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).
> >
> > Ari Maniatis
> >
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> They are built by default, but not loaded in memory by default. That's the
> difference.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Nikolay Denev
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its the loader thats the issue Nikolay not the kernel modules



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