Re: Bug#832451: ITP: aufs4 -- advanced multi layered unification filesystem version 4.x
On 07/25/2016 06:12 PM, Jan Luca Naumann wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Jan Luca Naumann <j.naumann@fu-berlin.de>
>
> * Package name : aufs4
> Version : 4.6+20160523
> Upstream Author : Junjiro R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>
> * URL : http://aufs.sourceforge.net/
> * License : GPL2+
> Programming Lang: C
> Description : advanced multi layered unification filesystem version 4.x
>
> Aufs is a stackable unification filesystem such as Unionfs, which unifies
> several directories and provides a merged single directory.
> In the early days, aufs was entirely re-designed and re-implemented
> Unionfs Version 1.x series. After
> many original ideas, approaches and improvements, it
> becomes totally different from Unionfs while keeping the basic features.
> See Unionfs Version 1.x series for the basic features.
> Recently, Unionfs Version 2.x series begin taking some of same
> approaches to aufs's.
>
> I'm intending to package the version 4.x for Debian. The module
> should use dkms to be build as kernel module.
>
> I hope to do the work as part of the filesystems project on Alioth:
> https://alioth.debian.org/projects/filesystems/
>
> I need a sponsor for the package.
We have already overlayfs in modern kernels. Could you explain why we
need aufs4 as well?
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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