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Right, but had you read the discussion this thread is about, you can see that Debian is working on a roadmap that includes binary drivers, shipped with the OS,

Right, but had you read the discussion this thread is about, you can see that Debian is working on a roadmap that includes binary drivers, shipped with the OS, available during the install. Linus has traditionally done a poor job of ensuring that filesystems will work well in production, ext4 being a _fantastic_ example of that. I appreciate the work he does, but I don't quite give a fuck if he is scanning the source for my filesystem. I've seen more ext4 filesystems go corrupt than all others combined. Red Hat and IBM can, equally, kiss my ass, I've never found either to be reliable. I don't see how DKMS is really an artificial barrier to run, test, deploy, and support something. It is, in fact, the opposite of a barrier - it's a tool.

mbreese 12y ago
Debian is working on a roadmap that includes shipping source drivers to be slipstreamed in as dynamic modules. DKMS is a tool, but it's hardly the same as a good, in tree module. I remember having tons of issues with DKMS WiFi drivers back when I still ran a Linux laptop (10-ish years ago). If you get an upstream kernel upgrade and the ZFS DKMS module doesn't compile against it, you're screwed. Can you imagine trying to debug DKMS issues with your main filesystem? I hope you leave an ext2/3/4 volume around for booting and root. I'm glad that you feel like you can discount the work that IBM and Red Hat have done to advance Linux, but they've done a ton to make sure that Linux could take over data centers. Good to know... Thanks!