On 07/25/2016 06:12 PM, Jan Luca Naumann wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Jan Luca Naumann <j.naum...@fu-berlin.de> > > * Package name : aufs4 > Version : 4.6+20160523 > Upstream Author : Junjiro R. Okajima <hooanon...@gmail.com> > * URL : http://aufs.sourceforge.net/ > * License : GPL2+ > Programming Lang: C > Description : advanced multi layered unification filesystem version 4.x > > Aufs is a stackable unification filesystem such as Unionfs, which unifies > several directories and provides a merged single directory. > In the early days, aufs was entirely re-designed and re-implemented > Unionfs Version 1.x series. After > many original ideas, approaches and improvements, it > becomes totally different from Unionfs while keeping the basic features. > See Unionfs Version 1.x series for the basic features. > Recently, Unionfs Version 2.x series begin taking some of same > approaches to aufs's. > > I'm intending to package the version 4.x for Debian. The module > should use dkms to be build as kernel module. > > I hope to do the work as part of the filesystems project on Alioth: > https://alioth.debian.org/projects/filesystems/ > > I need a sponsor for the package.
We have already overlayfs in modern kernels. Could you explain why we need aufs4 as well? Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
