Module-only AUFS without kernel patches

2016-05-22 Thread Tomas M
I had a discussion with AUFS developer about a way how to make AUFS as a module-only, which would work without recompiling kernel (so without the kernel patches). It showed up that maybe there could be a way to do this - by supplying a copy of the functions (which are otherwise exported) to aufs s

Re: Module-only aufs

2016-05-21 Thread sfjro
Hi Tomas, I hope you are doing well. Tomas M: > is it possible to compile current aufs as a kernel module, which > could be used with unpatched kernel? I can understand that patching and rebuilding the whole kernel takes a long time. But unfortunately it is impossible to skip patching. I guess t

Module-only aufs

2016-05-21 Thread Tomas M
Hello, is it possible to compile current aufs as a kernel module, which could be used with unpatched kernel? Currently, if I want to use aufs, even if compiled as a kernel module, I must patch kernel sources and compile kernel from scratch and then I must be running the patched kernel in order to