building kernel including GEOM_VINUM

Gary Jennejohn gljennjohn at googlemail.com
Sat Feb 5 09:07:32 UTC 2011


On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 00:48:56 +0200
Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou at gmail.com> wrote:

> On (04/02/2011 14:12), Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > It would probably require some major hacking.  Apparently gvinum was
> > designed with using it only as a KLD in mind.
> The change it trivial, just add files listed in
> sys/modules/geom/geom_vinum/Makefile to sys/files.
> It was also necessary it tweak /sbin/gvinum to check if module loaded
> during startup to eliminate useless warning (afair).
> 

For someone not used to working with the kernel I'd say that what you
describe is major hacking.  Especially the modification to gvinum.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn (gj@)


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