[Unionfs] uniofs in ubuntu 7.04?

[Shaya Potter]

no.  Ubuntu (Gutsy) is using

spotter at dent:~/papers/strata/eurosys08$ dmesg |grep unionfs
[36754.408000] Registering unionfs 2.1.2 (for 2.6.22.4)

Ubuntu kernel's are very different than debian kernels.

Josef Sipek wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 01:46:55PM +0300, Markku Savela wrote:
>> Just wondering... is the unionfs in the current Ubuntu in "working
>> condition"? 
> ...
> 
> The short answer is: it's not great.
> 
> The long answer is: the Debian package maintainer (from where Ubuntu draws
> it's packages hasn't moved to the 2.x version of Unionfs.
> 
>> description:    Unionfs 20060916-2203 (http://unionfs.filesystems.org/)
>                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> That's a snapshot from 1 year and 2 days ago! The source code underwent a
> major change since then.
> 
> I have two suggestions for you:
> 
> 1) if you want unionfs now, grab the code from unionfs.filesystems.org
> 
> 2) bug the ubuntu person in change of the unionfs package (I'm not sure how
> things work in the ubuntu community) - and tell them that they're missing
> out on MAJOR improvements.
> 
> The whole situation is rather sad.
> 
> Jeff.
>