On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > > ZoL (ZFS on Linux) nowadays is implemented using DKMS instead of FUSE, thus > running in kernelspace, and (relatively) easier to put into an initramfs. > > Updating is a beeyotch on binary-based distros as it requires a recompile. > Not a big deal for us Gentooers :-)
dkms works perfectly well on binary distros; it's a Dell/RH creation. It runs "make ..." to build a kernel module and then installs it.