VFS Union mounts suck for Live CDs

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Fri Jul 17 11:45:24 UTC 2009


On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:48:11AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 06:44:32AM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
> > I believe it is the consensus among those folks testing VFS union mounts
> > that its not a workable alternative for Live CDs compared to AUFS in
> > Jaunty. Therefore Andy Whitcroft has prepared a commit series to the
> > Karmic kernel tree that will add AUFS back to our builds.
> 
> This is good to hear, and I agree with the rationale in the discussion.
> FWIW, the live CD infrastructure will automatically start using aufs
> again once it's available with no changes required (assuming the module
> name is still 'aufs' and not 'aufs2', otherwise it'd need a slight
> tweak).

Nice.  Name is unchanged module wise.

-apw




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