[arch-dev-public] AUFS Patches in Kernel

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 18:33:32 EDT 2007


On 10/18/07, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 14:40 -0400, Paul Mattal wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
>
> I hope you mean 2.6.23.1 ;)
>
> As for the patches: all that it does is exporting one extra symbol where
> external modules can link to. This doesn't change the way the kernel
> works, so there's no downsides on applying it.
> +1 from me in this case.

I agree. One extra symbol exported has very little chance of screwing
anything up beyond AUFS modules which will be external.

Good work Paul.

+1 from me




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