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diff --git a/system/zfs-on-linux/README b/system/zfs-on-linux/README index 4d87857e40..2351b37ceb 100644 --- a/system/zfs-on-linux/README +++ b/system/zfs-on-linux/README @@ -1,17 +1,15 @@ ZFS is a modern filesystem originally developed for SOLARIS. It provides many functionalities such as snapshots, data compression, -data recovery and many more. +data recovery, filesystem (snapshot) sending/reveiving, and more. For more information about ZFS on linux, visit http://zfsonlinux.org -You'll need the kernel source code to be able to compile this. -This package is kernel dependent, so you'll need to recompile it -for every new kernel you choose to run. +NOTE: You'll need the kernel source code to be able to compile this. +This package is kernel dependent, so you'll need to recompile it for +every new kernel you choose to run. -If you don't have a /usr/src/linux symlink pointing to your real -kernel directory (the script looks for it there by default), specify -your kernel source destination by - - LINUXPATH=<path to your kernel source> ./zfs-on-linux.SlackBuild +If you're building this for a kernel that isn't currently running, +you'll need to pass what that kernel's 'uname -r' output will be +to the KERN variable when running the build script, e.g. KERN=4.14.9 NOTE: you should run this on x86_64 systems. |