On Sunday 24 May 2015 09:53 PM, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > Hello Ritesh, > > Ritesh Raj Sarraf: >> I've been trying to build aufs4 on my Debian kernel and run into the >> following build failure. > I am afraid you forgot applying aufs patches to your kernel source tree, > especially aufs4-mmap.patch. > > > J. R. Okajima
Thank you for the response. But given the description of standalone vs linux tree, I assumed this would just work. Anyways, in the standalone tree, there are a bunch of patches with no order defined. Is it to assume that they can all be applied randomly ? Second, many of these patches from the standalone tree, are touching other kernel files. My understanding of a standalone tree was that it was self contained, and I could just build a kernel module out of it. But that doesn't seem to be the case.... AUFS has features that are of interest to me. But it is unfortunate, that like CFS, Linux for now, is using just one union fs, i.e. overlayfs. I think the best bet would be to have aufs easily usable for users. I was thinking of reintroducing it into Debian in the form of a dkms package. (FYI: Debian last shipped AUFS in Jessie in kernel 3.16. But given that overlayfs got merged in 3.18, they've now dropped aufs) I think that will help increase the userbase and eventually include aufs mainline, or atleast part of its features into mainline overlayfs. I was hoping if we can have a standalone/dkms tree, which could build a kernel module out, easily loadable in the respective kernel ?? For example, see the following out-of-tree dkms packages I've been maintaining for Debian. https://packages.qa.debian.org/iscsitarget-dkms http://packages.qa.debian.org/virtualbox-dkms -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention."
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