[Unionfs] uniofs in ubuntu 7.04?

Josef Sipek jsipek at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu
Wed Sep 19 13:50:50 EDT 2007


On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 09:55:31AM +0300, Markku Savela wrote:
> 
> > From: Shaya Potter <spotter at cs.columbia.edu>
> > 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)
> 
> As far as I know, Gutsy is still unstable ("use at your own
> risk"). However, good to know that, when released, it will include
> better unionfs, and that I should not expect too difficult things from
> Feisty unionfs.
> 
> ps. Gutsy also includes Apparmor, and I noticed that Apparmor includes
> LSM changes that also affect unionfs (I thought I saw patches touching
> unionfs fly by ...).

Yep, they have to change unionfs to support their security model.

Jeff.

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