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Originally I believed that these interfaces would be needed. However, in practice it turned out that it was more straight forward and maintainable to use the native Linux interfaces. As such, this is all dead code and can be safely removed. Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Closes #109
The Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) is a Linux kernel module which provides many of the Solaris kernel APIs. This shim layer makes it possible to run Solaris kernel code in the Linux kernel with relatively minimal modification. This can be particularly useful when you want to track upstream Solaris development closely and don’t want the overhead of maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives to Linux primitives.
To build packages for your distribution:
$ ./configure
$ make pkg
Full documentation for building, configuring, and using the SPL can be found at: http://zfsonlinux.org