Julian Andres Klode:
> The Debian Kernel team told me to get these functions exported upstream, =
> but also told me
> that they are just wrappers about these f_op->splice_read/write functions=
> =2E
Not only wrapping, but also checking the access right.
> AFAIK, unionFS 2 does not need those kernel patches. I just wonder why au=
> fs needs these
> kernel patches and other filesystems not.
If you see the latest unionfs2, you will find their patch which is
equivalent to the one in aufs. Additioanlly they rename do_splice_* to
vfs_splice_*.
> BTW, newer Ubuntu disks support using aufs instead of unionfs (the defaul=
> t):
:::
> Debian Live also uses aufs.
Good choice. :-)
Junjiro Okajima
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