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 DNRC Motto: I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either.
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