Gentoo Archives: gentoo-catalyst

From: Isidore Ducasse <ducasse.isidore@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] unionfs and genkernel
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:26:19
Message-Id: 20070610205111.2902a9ef@Bazaar
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] unionfs and genkernel by Andrew Gaffney
1 le Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:03:00 -0500
2 Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o> a écrit:
3
4 > Luca Casagrande wrote:
5 > >
6 > > Il giorno 01/giu/07, alle ore 17:52, Isidore Ducasse ha scritto:
7 > >
8 > >>>
9 > >>> We used genkernel-3.4.8 and gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5 for the release.
10 > >>
11 > >> As far as I know, unionfs doesn't work for >2.6.20 kernels. At least
12 > >> not portage's ones.
13 > >> aufs on the sunrise overlay seems a very interesting alternative. Does
14 > >> someone know if there are plans to integrate it into standard portage
15 > >> tree?
16 > >>
17 > >
18 > > Have you tested it with 2.6.19-r5 ?
19 >
20 > It was apparently working with early builds of the 2007.0 release using that
21 > kernel, but "something" happened, and it no longer works in the official release
22 > media. We haven't investigated it yet, since it wasn't an advertised feature.
23 >
24 > --
25 Is there any chance gentoo-livecd will ever use an alternative union-filesystem as aufs? It does compile and work fine with later kernels (I use it with a 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 kernel under amd64).
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