RFC: moving sysutils/fusefs-kmod to base system
Aryeh M. Friedman
aryeh.friedman at gmail.com
Mon Sep 1 06:15:43 UTC 2008
Unless I understand how the kernel does stuff there is no penalty for
having unused modules (except the size of the kernel that needs to be
loaded). Keeping in mind that unless I am not reading stuff corectly
fusefs-kmod is the only FS related module that is not in the base
system. Since any fundamental changes in the generic FS API seems to
break fusefs-kmod, and cause some very nasty effects that are almost
impossible to trace to fusefs-kmod (machine freezes so no output or core
dump) it seems to make sense to move it to the base system (after all
we already do this with third party FS code like x/zfs) by moving it we
force it to always compile instead of breaking (of course there can be
other issues but as the FS API is updated fusefs-kmod is also updated to
use the new API)
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