Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

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On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 09:12:23PM +0100, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> I was thinking that if ZFS were in the kernel, it might be easier to
> get ZFS root.


You don't need to build ZFS into the kernel to boot it as a root mount
(same for FFS). The code to load modules from the bootloader already
exists. You do, however, need to write/port the functionality to
do a root mount, and teach the bootloader to read ZFS to find the
kernel (unless you use EFI boot, then maybe put the kernel on the FAT
partition).