Re: Replacing aufs with overlayfs

2020-05-15 Thread intrigeri
Hi Debian Kernel Team, intrigeri (2014-12-11): > Ben Hutchings wrote (09 Dec 2014 19:55:10 GMT) : >> Please try the Linux 3.18 packages from experimental (they're not there >> yet, but should be soon) and check that overlayfs does what you need. > > Thanks. I'll test it for Tails' usecases (that

Re: Replacing aufs with overlayfs

2014-12-22 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Ben Hutchings wrote (21 Dec 2014 23:20:15 GMT) : On Sun, 2014-12-21 at 21:53 +0100, intrigeri wrote: 1. Due to overlayfs' stack depth limit of 2, until support more than one read-only lower layer is completed, overlayfs breaks live-boot's SquashFS stacking feature; Tails automatic

Re: Replacing aufs with overlayfs

2014-12-21 Thread intrigeri
Hi, intrigeri wrote (11 Dec 2014 13:13:43 GMT) : Ben Hutchings wrote (09 Dec 2014 19:55:10 GMT) : Please try the Linux 3.18 packages from experimental (they're not there yet, but should be soon) and check that overlayfs does what you need. Thanks. I'll test it for Tails' usecases (that use

Re: Replacing aufs with overlayfs

2014-12-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2014-12-21 at 21:53 +0100, intrigeri wrote: Hi, intrigeri wrote (11 Dec 2014 13:13:43 GMT) : Ben Hutchings wrote (09 Dec 2014 19:55:10 GMT) : Please try the Linux 3.18 packages from experimental (they're not there yet, but should be soon) and check that overlayfs does what you

Re: Replacing aufs with overlayfs

2014-12-21 Thread maximilian attems
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 09:53:24PM +0100, intrigeri wrote: Is it an option to get aufs back into the Debian kernel until #1 is completed and reaches mainline? (I could understand that you want to add a deadline if you make such a promise, of course :) no, there is no rush for the upcoming

Re: Replacing aufs with overlayfs

2014-12-12 Thread intrigeri
hi, [dropping -kernel@ from the Cc list.] Michal Suchanek wrote (11 Dec 2014 16:08:54 GMT) : This might be interesting. Last time I looked at overlayfs it had hardcoded maximum number of stacked filesyetems iirc. If anyone has time to try it out, I'm curious of the results :) -- To

Re: Replacing aufs with overlayfs

2014-12-11 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Ben Hutchings wrote (09 Dec 2014 19:55:10 GMT) : Please try the Linux 3.18 packages from experimental (they're not there yet, but should be soon) and check that overlayfs does what you need. Thanks. I'll test it for Tails' usecases (that use aufs a bit more than most other live systems,

Replacing aufs with overlayfs

2014-12-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
The overlayfs union filesystem was included in Linux 3.18. I am assuming that this will cover the needs of Debian live systems, so I've dropped aufs from the Debian packaging. This is currently for experimental only, but you can expect this change to appear in unstable shortly after the jessie

Re: Replacing aufs with overlayfs

2014-12-09 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 12/09/14 20:55, Ben Hutchings wrote: I am assuming that this will cover the needs of Debian live systems, so I've dropped aufs from the Debian packaging. yes. you can expect this change to appear in unstable shortly after the jessie release. great, looking forward to that. -- Address:

Re: Replacing aufs with overlayfs

2014-12-09 Thread Ed Dixon
Wow that will be a major change! I will be testing live persistence here as soon as it is available! Thanks to both of you for your hard work in all of this! On Tue Dec 09 2014 at 1:54:21 PM Daniel Baumann daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net wrote: On 12/09/14 20:55, Ben Hutchings wrote: