On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 09:13:13PM +0200, Ele wrote: > Julian > > You may do nit-picking on my limited knowledge of the english > language, but with some goodwill you could have understood > the meaning. It is about the meaning. You could have meant: (a) The NFS is part of the aufs (a branch) (b) The NFS exports the aufs
And (a) can not be supported without a patch in the kernel (see below),
and (b) should work (but I never checked it).
>
> Anyhow, I therefore correct the relevant paragraph to
>
> "It does work together with local ex2 and ext3, but as soon as remote
> nfs or samba gets involved, it does segfault if called from init and give
> other error messages when called later from shell."
>
> Debian Lenny is a well defined complete distribution I downloaded as binary.
> aufs.ko delivered with it is obviously broken and imho of very limited use.
It works for the "normal" use cases with local filesystems. And this is the most
important use case for me, and for many others. The primary use cases are:
1) Debian Live
> I did not read any recommendations about kernel patches, do not intend and
> cannot do so and definitely will not do any compilations or patches at all.
If the kernel team decides it does not want to patch the shipped kernel, there
is nothing I can do about it. Others have recognized this and are willing to
compile their own kernels.
> Imho aufs.ko should not have been distributed with Lenny if it has not been
> thoroughly tested together with nfs and cifs, and unless somebody makes
> available a working aufs.ko for Lenny, I maintain my statement that it is
> badly broken.
It has been distributed because (A) There is nothing else in Debian,
(B) it works for the most important cases out of the box, (C) patches are
provided for users needing NFS filesystems as a branch.
And the only way to fix this is to apply the lhash patch to the kernel, and
rebuild kernel and aufs modules.
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