[Unionfs] UNIONFS removed from .29 kernel?

[Arun Sharma]

Hello Erez

Thanks for your unionfs support. I really like unionfs and use it my my
Centos 5.1 os.

Arun




On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Paul Bender <pebender at san.rr.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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Regards
Arun Sharma
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