On Mon, 2016-07-25 at 21:05 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > 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?
I believe aufs stil has these advantages over overlayfs: - Can be exported via NFS - White-outs share an inode rather than requiring an inode each - Sparse files remain sparse when copied-up - Multiple writeable branches - Creating a hard link does not require a copy-up Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Knowledge is power. France is bacon.
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