On 27/07/15 00:36, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2015-07-24 at 19:26 +0100, OmegaPhil wrote: >>> >>> On Monday 25 May 2015 04:55 PM, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: >>>> Ritesh Raj Sarraf: >>>>> 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 ? >>>> No. >>>> Please refer to README file in aufs4-standalone.git. >>> >>> >>> Yup. That one explain. Sorry. I completely missed that file. >>> >>>>> I was hoping if we can have a standalone/dkms tree, which could build a >>>>> kernel module out, easily loadable in the respective kernel ?? >>>> Patching is neccessary (by either manually or GIT), which means you will >>>> need another kernel as long as debian kernel is unpatched. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Then it may not fit in the bill of dkms. Let me check with Ben on how he >>> supported it for Jessie. >> >> >> Did this go anywhere? I'm on Debain Testing, the recent upgrade to v4 >> kernel completely bricked aufs volumes on the 2 machines I use it on >> locally because they removed this (and where was the acceptability of >> such a removal discussed? Nothing comes up on a search)... > > The aufs patches to the kernel are included in Debian packages again as > of Linux 4.1 which will go into unstable soon. You will still have to > build the module separately. > > Ben.
Thanks, I'll keep an eye on the kernel and install it from unstable when it appears, and start building this module now.
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