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Bug#541828: linux-2.6: Please export symbols for aufs2 (or unionfs2).



On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 01:02 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 16:57 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > Package: linux-2.6
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Tags: patch
> > 
> > Currently, we are shipping aufs1 in Debian unstable, which is
> > not supported upstream anymore since January 2009. This is a
> > bad situation.
> > 
> > We now have 3 options:
> >  1) Ship aufs2 (which requires 18 symbol exports in the kernel)
> >  2) Ship unionfs2 (which requires 4 symbol exports in the kernel)
> >  3) Ship no kernel-based union filesystem
> [...]
> 
> We need to come to a decision on this.  We know (3) is not practical, so
> it's a choice between one of the other two.  If Ubuntu's happy with
> aufs2 then we may as well go with that.  On the other hand, it appears
> that unionfs2 is actually headed for inclusion upstream, so if we select
> that now then we don't need to change again later.

Greg K-H clarified that he expects the union mount feature, not
unionfs2, to be included.  Therefore I will work on inclusion of aufs2
for squeeze.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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