All, I would like to request the addition of the attached patch to the kernel PKGBUILD, to allow maintenance of an aufs package. Aufs is a rewrite of unionfs, with different strengths and weaknesses. The particular strength that makes it compelling is that it handles NFS filesystems as branches of a merged filesystem both correctly and with stability. This allows you to efficiently create diskless workstations where each client sees his own writeable root filesystem based off of a single filesystem image. The impact is two small patches which need to be added to the kernel, each of which exposes a small number of kernel function calls which are needed by aufs. I would appreciate if others would consider this and sign off. Having these patches in the kernel would make us fully aufs-friendly. I have attached the PKGBUILD patch against the current testing 2.6.13.1 kernel, as well as the two patches for your easy perusal. Best, Paul