building kernel including GEOM_VINUM

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:37:46 +0100
Luca Pizzamiglio <l.pizzamiglio at bally-wulff.de> wrote:

> I'm Luca and I use FreeBSD for more than one year. And I'm happy for 
> that! I'm using 7.3 and 8.1.
> I started to use gvinum+geli and everything is fine.
> But I've a little problem: for a specific update procedure, I need to 
> build a kernel which includes Vinum, without module.
>

And why do you need it in the kernel?  If you load it from /boot/loader.conf
it will be running when the machine enters user mode.  Or don't you want to
have any modules?

> I read on FreeBSD 
> handbook that is possible (but not raccomended), but I don't find how...
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-config.html
> 
> I missed something or GEOM_VINUM is available just as a module?
> 

It would probably require some major hacking.  Apparently gvinum was
designed with using it only as a KLD in mind.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn