ZFS Design

Posted Sep 20, 2013 12:02 UTC (Fri) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641)
In reply to: ZFS Design by cortana
Parent article: The OpenZFS project launches

Do installers install DKMS packages ? I'm not aware of any that do (would surprise me if they did, I guess in theory it could do that in a chroot maybe).

So if binaries can't be distributed and the installer doesn't support DKMS packages then the result will be it will never be the default filesystem.

ZFS Design

Posted Sep 30, 2013 15:23 UTC (Mon) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

Not sure why installers can't install DKMS packages. In Debian the base 'dkms' support package depends on the stuff necessary to build modules, so installing foo-dkms will pull in the compiler and kernel headers automatically.

IIRC you can install Debian inside VirtualBox and you'll end up with a system including virtualbox-guest-dkms without any user intervention.