Support for AUFS on Kernel 4.x branch

[Tim Gardner]

On 10/21/2015 03:09 AM, Florin Patan wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I'd like to make a small feature request, if possible.
> Currently I'm trying to use the 4.x branch for kernels from
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ but unfortunately I've
> bumped into a big issue as it doesn't seem to support AUFS which is
> needed by Docker.
> Aside from compiling the kernel manually, which I'd rather not do, is
> there anything that could be done so that those releases support AUFS
> out of the box?
> I'm sorry if I'm contacting the wrong team / place for this, but this
> was the advice I've got from
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+question/271561
> Thank you for your time, help and hard work on this.
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Florin

AUFS is an out-of-tree driver which typically lags upstream development. 
The only place we bother supporting it is in the distro kernel, and then 
only near the maturation of our target release version.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com