[Unionfs] UNIONFS removed from .29 kernel?

[Paul Bender]

Zitt Zitterkopf wrote:
> Is UnionFS still alive and well?
> Haven't seen any traffic here in the mailing list for the last few months.
>  
> Internally we have some linux .29 kernels which seem to have UNIONFS 
> removed from the kernel - is this present at the main head or just some 
> artifact of our internal linux development teams?

Unionfs has not been included in the vanilla kernel and continues to be 
patch. It appears that the kernel developers have a different idea on 
how the stackable unification file system support should be implemented. 
According to a recent thread on the Linux kernel mailing list, work is 
finally underway on this different approach.

> Would the 19.rc-2 patches work against the latest *2.6.29.4* 
> <http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.29.4.bz2> release?

In MiniMyth, I am using the unionfs 2.5.1 patch for 2.6.29-rc2 with 
2.6.29.4 and I have not had any problems. However, I do have a problem 
when using it with 2.6.30-rc6.