[Nix-dev] [PATCHES] vsftpd and filesystems

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 03:52:27PM +0100, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl> wrote:
> > On 25/02/12 08:45, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
> >
> >> A module that might not be available on some architectures / older
> >> kernel versions / custom configs.
> >
> > That shouldn't be a problem because the script that builds the initrd skips
> > missing modules (printing a warning).
> 
> I was referring to the use of "modprobe btrfs" in Bryce's original patch.
> That wasn't initrd related, but would manually run modprobe from an
> upstart task.

Right, mips and armv5tel nixos default kernels don't have those modules. Those
systems would fail to boot on next reboot after rebuild. Annoying.

Why not prepare some "boot.btrfs = true;" kind of option, if btrfs is a
complicated thing? A builder based on that could even check that the kernel
config has BTRFS enabled. :)