The ZFS File System Will be Included in Ubuntu, Says Mark Shuttleworth
A very interesting discussion started earlier today, October 6, on the Ubuntu Snappy Core mailing list about a method of adding kernel modules to a Snappy-based operating system.
Geoffrey J. Teale started the discussion asking Ubuntu Snappy developers if he could add Linux kernel modules to a system based on Snappy Core via a framework. The current method of adding kernel modules to an Ubuntu Snappy system would be by packaging them in a standard snap, which can be manually injected into the kernel packages using the "sudo insmod" command.
"What I have in mind is a little homebrew ZFS appliance. The hardware is off the shelf, and there's nothing special to drive, it's just that ZFS and SPL are implemented (in the main) as kernel modules. If I have to make a custom image to use snappy that way it sort of reduces the value of Ubuntu Core as a platform (it'd just be easier to use Ubuntu Server)," says Geoffrey J. Teale.
