Patches for aufs for 2.6.36 kernel.

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Fri Oct 29 15:52:53 UTC 2010


On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 08:55:20PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 10/25/2010 10:46 AM, Ben Greear wrote:
> >On 10/25/2010 09:44 AM, Ben Greear wrote:
> >>I have some patches that allows aufs to compile (still working on remastering
> >>the live-cd to see if it actually boots& works OK).
> >>
> >>Are these worth posting, or is someone already working on this?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Ben
> >>
> >
> >Well, I got something to boot, but kernel crashes soon after, and I'm
> >not sure why (any easy way to get a serial-console working on a live
> >cd running in a virtual machine??).
> >
> >I'll look into the other aufs patches posted recently in case those
> >work better.
> >
> >Since someone asked, I'm attaching the patch I'm using.
> 
> My attempt didn't work too well, but I was able to get Jordi Pujol's
> patches applied and they seem to work fine (remastered live-cd is
> stable).
> 
> I'm attaching a single patch that should apply to the ubuntu-natty
> 2.6.36 tree and make aufs work.  If anyone wants to apply this and/or
> hack on it more, you have my:
> 
> Signed-off-by:  Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
> 
> But, I don't have time to break up the patches and figure out how
> to get it upstream....
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben

Thanks Ben.  I'll have a look at this one and Jordi's patches and see
what we can do to get this cleaned up and re-enabled.

-apw




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