[elrepo] zfs module

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2011, Farkas Levente wrote:

> On 04/19/2011 05:15 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>
>> Suppose, we find no issue with the license and decide to provide the
>> packages, we would like to have someone build/maintain them. Levente,
>> are you willing to take on this job?
>
> unfortunately in the next couple of weeks i don't have too much time
> (deadlines, rhel-6.1 rebuild and still has a few proprietary kmods which
> can't be compiled or not running properly on el6). and my vacation to
> bali already shifted by 2 weeks:-(
>
> on the other hand we use different type of kmods we use one common
> kmodtool for both el5/6 and for all kmods this's just a little modified
> version of the original kmodtool in redhat-rpm-config (which can be
> installed on both system) and in this was the automated buildsys can
> build for el5 and el6 from the same source and spec for all arch which
> is a imho cleaner, more easier to maintain. what's more this's the only
> way to make automated daily build for our testers without human
> interaction (since when i have to do something manually i used to made
> mistakes:-().

To conclude this thread. The project itself has no reasons for not 
providing the zfs kmod module, other than lacking someone who has an 
interest in maintaining this driver.

The license is deemed fine, the quality of the driver is unknown, but 
that's why we have a testing repository anyway.

So unless someone stands up to maintain this driver (usually someone with 
a vested interest in having zfs support) and willing to work with the 
ELRepo project and its standards, there will not be a zfs kmod module.

If you read this and you feel up to the task, feel free to contact us 
again :-)

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-- dag wieers, dag at elrepo.org, http://dag.wieers.com/

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