AUFS: status?

[Michael Haas]

Hello,

I sent some patches for AUFS to the mailing list, about five weeks ago.
These patches add a proper aufs tree which actually supports things like
NFS branches etc.


There are a few problems with my patch:

* it doesn't apply cleanly against 2.6.27 anymore.
* according to amitk, that version is missing the fix for the rename
deadlock issue.

We have a few options now:

* use a newer version of aufs which contains the fix for the deadlock
and support for 2.6.27.
* use my patch, which tried to be as close to what currently lives in
the ubuntu kernel as possible, fix the deadlock issue and fix
compilation. I guess patches for these problems are already in the
Intrepid kernel, but it's not exactly easy to extract them. AUFS was
added as a big monolithic commit [1] and I'm not keen on hunting down
patches.


Let me know which approach you want so I can submit a patch.

I'd like to see this fixed for 8.10 beta. AUFS has been broken for a
long time and Mythbuntu needs it.


Regards,

Michael


[1]
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-intrepid.git;a=history;f=ubuntu/aufs;h=HEAD;hb=HEAD