RFC: moving sysutils/fusefs-kmod to base system
Volodymyr Kostyrko
c.kworr at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 08:24:17 UTC 2008
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> 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
This can be done by documenting usage of make.conf PORTS_MODULES knob.
Just a little notice in ports would suffice, not anybody out there
compiles a new kernel daily.
> (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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