CVS-20071216 release and Linux-2.6.24-rc6

2008-01-09 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Sun December 16 2007 21:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no #define TEMPFS_MAGIC in mm/shmem.c of 2.6.24-rc6 The comment about it being used by glibc remains, but the define is _gone_. Passing -DTEMPFS_MAGIC defines the symbol (which is empty of contents); so the conditional test in

Re: aufs Monday release

2008-01-09 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Wed January 9 2008 15:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Michael, Michael S. Zick: There is no #define TEMPFS_MAGIC in mm/shmem.c of 2.6.24-rc6 The comment about it being used by glibc remains, but the define is _gone_. I downloaded ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing

Re: aufs Monday release

2008-01-09 Thread Michael S. Zick
) for conditional tests. Mike On Wed January 9 2008 16:30, Michael S. Zick wrote: On Wed January 9 2008 16:09, Michael S. Zick wrote: On Wed January 9 2008 15:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Michael, Michael S. Zick: There is no #define TEMPFS_MAGIC in mm/shmem.c of 2.6.24-rc6

Re: aufs Monday release

2008-01-10 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Thu January 10 2008 00:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael S. Zick: Found it! Congratulation. Which course would you like to see - a simple rename everywhere, or major change to look it up in the header file rather than grep for it? There should be a CONFIG_VSERVER

Re: lhash patch for 2.6.24-rc7

2008-01-14 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Sun January 13 2008 20:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael S. Zick: Which is reasonable, and also the reason I had to post an lhash-2.6.24.patch file Your patch didn't seem to be delivered to me or ml. When did you post it? Jan 11 (my local date) - In-line and attached. As noted

Re: problem moving files between layers

2008-01-26 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Wed January 23 2008 20:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dipl.-Ing. Michael Niederle: I check all files whether they are opened or not before removing them from the ramdisk-layer. It seems that I must not remove any file within a directory if only a single file within that directory

Splice Vulnerabilities

2008-02-11 Thread Michael S. Zick
Does this advisory apply to the use of splice system calls in auFS? http://secunia.com/advisories/28835/ Mike - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008.

Re: problem: Corrupted filesystem

2008-02-20 Thread Michael S. Zick
unable to track your conversation :( Actually I don't know what he did. There is no private conversation about sqlzma between thanatermesis and me. All I know is the URL he posted to aufs ML. And according to the post from Michael S. Zick to aufs ML, I don't think you made something wrong. Here

Re: using uloop in Debian Live

2008-05-15 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Thu May 15 2008 07:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jordi Pujol: Another thing, Attached is my little collaboration to uloop, two little commands to mount = and=20 umount with easy. Thank you. They must help other people. I will describe them too. The uloop example is a

Re: aufs (unionfs) + vserver = kernel ops

2008-08-20 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Tue August 19 2008 16:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Oliver, Oliver Welter: I used the vserver-patch provided with aufs ( I had to change the patched file from vfsub.h to vfsub.c ) and compiled it into the kernel as told by the README. I did a simple mount example and as

Re: May I beg you?

2008-09-24 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Wed September 24 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No one should take any offense to such a carefully written request. Can contributors e-mail you directly at the above address? Come on aufs users, let us all scrape together enough coins to keep this project alive. Mike Hello aufs users,

Re: recent aufs versions and folder inotify events

2008-10-25 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Wed October 22 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James .: Behaviour which i dont think is correct: I noticed that the unioned filesystem often misses some inotify events (or whatever you would call it) when new files are created. I have to refresh on my nautilus browser every time to see

Re: recent aufs versions and folder inotify events

2008-10-25 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Wed October 22 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James .: Behaviour which i dont think is correct: I noticed that the unioned filesystem often misses some inotify events (or whatever you would call it) when new files are created. I have to refresh on my nautilus browser every time to see

Re: Bug in i_op.c?

2008-11-11 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Tue November 11 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Elmar, Thank you for your bug report. Unfortunately, aufs_related_infos/proc_mounts in your tar file is empty. Send me /proc/mounts first please. Vonlanthen, Elmar: copy some files manually from rootfs to the Union, because

Re: aufs2-base2-2.6.27.tar.bz2

2009-02-02 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Mon February 2 2009, Julian Andres Klode wrote: On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 06:05:18PM +0100, Tommy[D] wrote: If i see it right, this is now a kernel patch, so distros would have to add it to their kernel and would have to maintain it here. With the cvs-Version, people could use the

Re: aufs mount problem in initrd with CentOS 5.2 ( RHEL 5.2)

2009-02-06 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Fri February 6 2009, Nitin Bhardwaj wrote: On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:29 PM, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Hello Nitin, Nitin Bhardwaj: mount -t aufs -o br:/sysroot/bin:/sysroot/.mount/bin=ro none /sysroot/bin mount -t aufs -o br:/sysroot/lib:/sysroot/.mount/lib=ro none

Re: permission in an aufs-mount

2009-03-08 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Sun March 8 2009, Peter Hansen wrote: Hi, I've a question about aufs: I want to create a FS-Tree with one rw and one ro branch (simple setup). Thats not the problem but I want to wrap all permissions while mount to uid=100 (some_user) and gid=100 (users). Is there any possibility

Re: Will aufs2 support ramfs?

2009-03-12 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Wed March 11 2009, Barry Kauler wrote: I'm another person who has a need for this, for aufs to be able to use initramfs. I would like a variant of Puppy Linux that stays in the initramfs and is able to build a layer-f.s. with '/' as one branch, and chroot into it. Gotcha - initramFS

Re: Will aufs2 support ramfs?

2009-03-12 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Wed March 11 2009, TualatriX wrote: J. R. Okajima: One question. Are you using initramfs as an aufs writable branch? If so, have you ever met the capacity (size limit) problem? Yes, as an writeable branch, and I haven't ever meet any capacity problem yet. It may have a 50% of

Re: aufs2 Monday GIT release

2009-04-12 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Sun April 12 2009, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: The aufs2 GIT trees on http://git.c3sl.ufpr.br/pub/scm are updated. If I made something wrong about tree management, please let me know. News - support variable vdir, new options rdblk= and rdhash=. - I have posted aufs patches to

Re: poor performance for large directory listing

2009-04-13 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Mon April 13 2009, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Jeff Breidenbach$B$5$s(B: I spent some time trying to install aufs2 on Ubuntu 8.04, but this is getting beyond my skill level. For aufs1, I have been able to use Julian's packages and module assistant. If Ubuntu 8.04 is

Re: overlap=exclude

2009-04-13 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Mon April 13 2009, Xavier Pijuan wrote: If both of your /tmp/rw and / exist on the same filesystem, then I'd recommend you to mount tmpfs to /tmp/rw. Aufs will not complain when two filesystems are different. J. R. Okajima Thank you! That seems to work. But I still think that that

Re: Busybox seg fault using aufs

2009-05-14 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Thu May 14 2009, Derek Spadaro wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:38 PM, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Derek Spadaro: I was asking around a few weeks back about aufs using uClibc.  I am still wrestling with this issue.  GDB tells me that when this fault occurs uClibc __start is

Re: Busybox seg fault using aufs

2009-05-14 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Thu May 14 2009, Michael S. Zick wrote: On Thu May 14 2009, Derek Spadaro wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:38 PM, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Derek Spadaro: I was asking around a few weeks back about aufs using uClibc.  I am still wrestling with this issue.  GDB tells me

Re: pdflush produces 99% CPU usage with aufs2 on some conditions

2009-05-19 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Tue May 19 2009, Alexander Krause wrote: Hi, Alexander Krause: What I menat is something like this. # mkdir /mnt/aufs/overlay # mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/aufs/overlay # while true; do find /mnt/aufs/overlay/ -ls /dev/null; done # seq 100 | while read i; do yes | dd

Re: GIT Repository broken?

2009-06-09 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Tue June 9 2009, Johannes Bauer wrote: Bruno Cesar Ribas schrieb: Strange, I just tested here and everything went Ok. Indeed, this is most strange: I tried it on my other computer (Gentoo, git version 1.6.0.6) and it worked fine. However, on the one I tried before (Debian Etch, git

Re: Any known issues with this combination?

2009-11-04 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Wed November 4 2009, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Hello Kyle, Kyle Bader: I plan on using 2.6.31.5 vanilla from git, merging it with aufs2-31 and applying the grsecurity patch: ::: Are you aware of any incompatibilities? As far as I know, there is no such problem

Re: performance of aufs

2009-12-02 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Wed December 2 2009, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: xavi kpan: Dear all: We use aufs to mount an ro rootfs(/usr/,/lib/...) and a writable layer on it. both are ext3. The lmbench show that creation of file, deteting of files are only a half of the speed of the ext3.

Re: performance of aufs

2009-12-03 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Thu December 3 2009, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Michael S. Zick: There is at least one, low cost ($100USD) system, also available in Japan, that makes a good example of such a system: the ASUS O!Play, Media Player. Which also has a community, system's development, web-site

Re: masking out subdirectories ... is it possible ? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-01-29 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Fri January 29 2010, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Hello Alex, Wilkinson, Alex: I have created a union mount as such: #mount -t aufs -o br=/mnt/foo:/mnt/bar none /mnt/aufs This works perfectly well. However there are a number of directories and files under

Re: Your AUFS donation will be doubled by Tomas M

2010-04-15 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Thu April 15 2010, Tomas M wrote: Hello all aufs users, this is Tomas M, the author of Slax and Linux Live scripts. I am using AUFS in my open source projects and I need AUFS to be developed as long as possible. At the same time I realize that it is very hard task to keep the code up to

Re: Ext3 filesystem errors - orphaned inodes - continued

2010-11-27 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Sat November 27 2010, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: sf...@users.sourceforge.net: Do you consider this a bug in aufs, though? No. I think it is a problem of your shutdown script. Generally any shutdown script executes - kill all processes - remount / readonly For the

Re: NFS root + aufs tmpfs + Apache performance problem

2011-01-27 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Wed January 26 2011, dan...@zoltak.com wrote: Quoting sf...@users.sourceforge.net: If you don't mind, would you clarify your story? Other aufs users may meet the similar situation and may think there must exist something bad in aufs similarly. For such users, what you have

Re: UID/GID support

2011-02-08 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Tue February 8 2011, Jeff Hanson wrote: On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:44 AM,  sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Users have their own rw branch individually, don't they? chwon makes the file copied-up in aufs. So it never affect other users. Tried that.  The result is that the rw branch

Re: UID/GID support

2011-02-09 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Tue February 8 2011, Jeff Hanson wrote: On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Michael S. Zick a...@morethan.org wrote: That is a property of inode file systems - only one location for ownership. Symbolic link chain at the directory name level - Hard links are many names-to-single inode

Re: page cache

2011-03-10 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Thu March 10 2011, Corin Langosch wrote: Hi, I love aufs but wonder if it's kernel page cache friendly. In my setup I have a shared folder with lot's of tools, libs, etc. installed. I now mount this read-only to several locations and start the tools from there. Does this result in

Re: No whiteouts?

2011-10-14 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Fri October 14 2011, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Ken Trumbo: Yes, I know it sounds a bit strange at first. For example, the user can modify a file and test the change (say to a file in /etc) and if they don't like the change deleting just reverts back to the previous version.

Re: 3.1 branch in aufs-util

2011-11-10 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Wed November 9 2011, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: --- On Thu, 11/10/11, sf...@users.sourceforge.net sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: From: sf...@users.sourceforge.net sf...@users.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: 3.1 branch in aufs-util To: Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrot...@yahoo.com

Re: aufs as lifetime enhancer?! [Re: Squeeze on USB]

2011-11-30 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Wed November 30 2011, Klaus Knopper wrote: Also, flash media ages. Manufacturers only guarantee cells to hold the information up to 10 years, so, flash is probably not good for long term storage. Well... Similar problem for magnetical or optical storage, which make it up to 50 years only.

Re: aufs2 and aufs3 GIT release

2011-12-05 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Sun December 4 2011, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: No aufs changes. Just updating aufs3.x-rcN to follow the mainline, linux-3.2.0-rc4. Perfect timing, I can start my week (Monday morning here) with a git pull. - - - - Would you consider a git-patch against aufs-utils to convert the

auFS 3.0 Problems

2011-12-09 Thread Michael S. Zick
JRO, Several problems here with auFS on a 3.0.4 kernel. All I can say about the first two is they aren't expected based on the on-line man.html. root:~# cat /sys/module/aufs/version 3.0-20110815 root:~# uname -a Linux Microknoppix 3.0.4 #12 SMP PREEMPT Thu Sep 8 05:27:05 CEST 2011 i686

Re: auFS 3.0 Problems

2011-12-09 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Fri December 9 2011, Michael S. Zick wrote: JRO, Several problems here with auFS on a 3.0.4 kernel. All I can say about the first two is they aren't expected based on the on-line man.html. root:~# cat /sys/module/aufs/version 3.0-20110815 root:~# uname -a Linux Microknoppix 3.0.4

aufs3-linux build warning

2011-12-10 Thread Michael S. Zick
JRO, I don't know what to do about this one: In file included from /auspace/auroot/aufs/aufs3-linux.git/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:573:0, from include/linux/uaccess.h:5, from include/linux/highmem.h:7, from include/linux/pagemap.h:10,

New au-chroot example

2011-12-11 Thread Michael S. Zick
JRO, group; Attached is what I propose as a new example of using auFS over a chroot base for the samples directory. This one is written in tutorial style, rather than the expert-to-expert style found elsewhere. Comments welcome, Mike auroot.txt.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Re: New au-chroot example

2011-12-11 Thread Michael S. Zick
typo's the moment I hit send but I will fix those (later). Mike Cheers, Dan Quoting Michael S. Zick a...@morethan.org: JRO, group; Attached is what I propose as a new example of using auFS over a chroot base for the samples directory. This one is written in tutorial style, rather

Re: New au-chroot example

2011-12-12 Thread Michael S. Zick
. Will turn out a corrected document, in a usable format, later today. Thanks to drawing my attention to the problems. Mike Quoting Michael S. Zick a...@morethan.org: On Sun December 11 2011, dan...@zoltak.com wrote: Hi Michael, I can't view the document. What format

Re: Mount return values are wrong in the new aufs mount location

2011-12-13 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Tue December 13 2011, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Vasanth Ragavendran: Oh then i was wrong in assuming that the old values shouldn't be displayed after doing a switch_root! :( i'm so sorry. however if i do a df -h in the I hope you would understand that your /proc/mounts never

Re: Mount return values are wrong in the new aufs mount location

2011-12-14 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Wed December 14 2011, Vasanth Ragavendran wrote: So I am saying Try moving jffs2 and sqfsh before switch_root, not only /tmp. You may need to change their mount-points. For example, # mkdir /jffs2 /sqfsh /tmp # mount ... /tmp # mount ... /jffs2 # mount ... /sqfsh # mount

Re: au-chroot example, v2

2011-12-15 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Thu December 15 2011, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Michael S. Zick: A longer example describing a much better, general purpose, au/chroot setup. ::: Once you read/work through the example, you will see how to make use of that box full of too small devices you have

auFS/chroot example(s)

2011-12-15 Thread Michael S. Zick
Group, Example(s) getting to big to post on the list, so they are now on-line at: http://hg.minimodding.com/repos/aufs/auroot.hg/ (summary) (a public repository, I.E: hg clone above URL gets you everything.) OR Clicking either of the 'files' notations gets you the list. Currently, a choice of

Re: auFS/chroot example(s)

2011-12-16 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Thu December 15 2011, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Michael S. Zick: @JRO - I embedded the css into the html file, so all you have to do (if you want to) is save the raw html file, then push it to your auFS website with a link to it from somewhere. The *.txt file is probably

Re: auFS/chroot example(s)

2011-12-16 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Fri December 16 2011, Klaus Knopper wrote: Hello Mike, On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 05:42:29AM -0600, Michael S. Zick wrote: On Thu December 15 2011, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Michael S. Zick: @JRO - I embedded the css into the html file, so all you have to do (if you

au-chroot example, part-2

2011-12-19 Thread Michael S. Zick
JRO, group; The second part of the au-chroot example is up. A quick link for your browser: http://hg.minimodding.com/repos/aufs/auroot.hg/raw-file/94a98b26fd87/au-root-part-2.html Some corrections have been made to the first part. A quick link for your browser:

Re: Mount return values are wrong in the new aufs mount location

2011-12-23 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Wed December 14 2011, Vasanth Ragavendran wrote: Which looks exactly as expected from the previous condition you listed before the move. What do you want different about it? I think I have stumbled onto a similar situation that does not involve auFS nor either of the *_root

Re: auFS and ACL

2011-12-31 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Fri December 30 2011, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: I forgot writing a few things. - Are you heroicglaedr@... himself or his co-worker? - the aufs module in Debian Squeeze is too old. additionally it is out of my control, unknown version for me. in other words, if aufs

Re: [PATCH] aufs: Do not refer to AUFS_NAME in pr_fmt

2012-01-02 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Sun January 1 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 11:58 +0900, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Thorsten Glaser: It introduces a new separated file include/linux/aufs_name.h. Isn=E2=80=99t that a bit overkill? Hmm, I may have to agree with that. Honestly

Maximum layer query

2012-01-05 Thread Michael S. Zick
JRO, group - Is there a way to determine the maximum number of layers a auFS enabled kernel was built with? Such as: Is it exposed in /sys/fs/aufs or somewhere? Mike -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box,

Re: Overriding permissions on lower branch

2012-01-16 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Mon January 16 2012, Tim Watts wrote: Hi, Might be a dumbo question, but I cannot see the answer in man mount.aufs or google... If I have 2 branches, br1 (RW) and br2(RO) layers with aufs, it seems that users cannot write to parts of the merged tree where they do not have write

Re: 2.6.39 Debian Kernel Sources: Problems with NFS

2012-02-16 Thread Michael S. Zick
with = aufs inside ... but now, I get a kernel panic ... :-/ . I don't think at = the moment, it has something todo with aufs itself. While I don't know your environment, particluraly your initramfs, I'd suggest you to take a look at Michael S. Zick wrote good examples, and made them public

Re: Update script bldchraufs - Build a chroot environment based on AUFS

2012-03-24 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Thu March 22 2012, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Robert Wotzlaw: to locate the reason of the AUFS kernel message. In my opinion, I can live with this message and if I see it right, the message doesn't point on an error, an error that can harm the file system and it

Re: Can I simply ignore aufs-util in small systems?

2012-06-16 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Sat June 16 2012, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Hello Guan, Guan Xin: Can there be any damage if I don't install aufs-util at all? Because saving every little bit of memory is very helpful. Specify: noplink in the mount command and you will still have limited usability with

Re: aufs + glusterfs = File too large on special files

2012-10-04 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Thu October 4 2012, you wrote: Hi Mike, On 03.10.2012 21:56, Michael S. Zick wrote: Is this the same problem you (well, a person with the same name) reported on the Linux-VServer list, using the Linux-VServer patched kernel + auFS + gluster? Mike yes it is - slightly