Tips from aufs users
Junjiro Okajima
# $Id: Tips,v 1.12 2008/11/17 02:12:17 sfjro Exp $
Here some tips from aufs users which may be useful for other users.
You can find most of them in the aufs-users ML archive on SourceForge.
But the archive has some delay...
Note: The dates below are taken from Date: field of the mail
message. It means they are all local timezone.
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Subject: handy Makefile for generating patches
14 Nov 2008, Kris Warkentin posted his Makefile to generate a patch
against an arbitrary kernel tree.
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=491D8821.3050402%40xandros.com&forum_name=aufs-users>
Subject: Re: aufs use-case
26 Oct 2008, Bruno Cesar Ribas replied to the question "aufs use-case"
from SEO, Takeshi, and said in Brasil over 10000 netboot terminals are
using PXE and AUFS.
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20081026154905.GA2212%40c3sl.ufpr.br>
Subject: Re: API questions
23 Oct 2008, Jan-Marek Glogowski posted that LiMux project is using FAI
and ro NFSv4 NFSroots + aufs tmpfs for rw in order to install their
Debian-based distribution.
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=Pine.LNX.4.58.0810231837250.26622%40stud1.fbihome.de>
Subject: Fwd: Null pointer exception
9 Jun 2008, Chris Engel posted that aufs on his ppc64 SMP NR_CPUS=128
NUMA Cell kernel working fine and the machine is reported as the world's
fastest computer.
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=1e548a3f0806091211m2be6d2b6vcdc31db0ccea1dd6%40mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Diskless netboot with live-initramfs + NFS + aufs
15 May 2008, Joshua Swink posted his startup script for netboot diskless
environment.
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=2665a2eb0805151336v57cc66aagcb9e5f0ef45f6d5%40mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: using uloop in Debian Live
14 May 2008, Jordi Pujol posted his script to mount uloop in a generic
way.
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=200805141656.08662.jordipujolp%40gmail.com>
Subject: Re: using uloop in Debian Live
12 May 2008, Jordi Pujol posted his patch against uloop to support a
regular file.
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=200805121827.02229.jordipujolp%40gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Mounting aufs filesystem as root filesystem
08 May 2008, Luis Carlos Erpen de Bona posted his remote boot schema for
aufs-root system.
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20080508170111.GA14197%40c3sl.ufpr.br&forum_name=aufs-users>
Subject: Re: Mounting aufs filesystem as root filesystem
08 May 2008, Tomas M posted his safe shutdown approach for aufs-root
system.
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=48231B66.2030300%40slax.org&forum_name=aufs-users>
Subject: <personal mail>
31 Mar 2008, Nicholas A. Schembri told me that he wrote a document
about aufs root filesystem on usb flash and made it public at
<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/aufsRootFileSystemOnUsbFlash>.
Also he is using aufs on eeepc with ubuntu.
Subject: Re: Overlay merging, with whiteouts
11 Mar 2008, Michael Towers sent his document for shwh/noshwh mount
option.
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=47D64998.50607%40web.de&forum_name=aufs-users>
Subject: Re: Does not compile with Ubuntu 2.6.24 (works with 2.6.22)
19 Jan 2008, Michael Haas sent his updated lhash patch for Ubuntu
gutsy kernel (and I forwarded it to the ml).
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=6762.1200713521%40jrobl&forum_name=aufs-users>
Subject: Re: lhash patch for 2.6.24-rc7
14 Jan 2008, Michael S. Zick (re)posted his refined lhash patch for
2.6.24-rc7
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=478A7C7D.2010305%40laga.ath.cx&forum_name=aufs-users>
Subject: Fwd: Re: Re: Re: Fwd: pivot_root: Device or resource busy
24 Oct 2007, Jakub W. Jozwicki posted his patch for realtime patch for
linux-2.6.23.
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=439c8fca.7a12e076.471fbad6.f398c%40o2.pl&forum_name=aufs-users>
The patch was merged into patch/rt-compat.patch.
Subject: Re: aufs initramfs question
23 Oct 2007, Philipp Wehrheim posted his script for initramfs.
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=1192808392.11101.278.camel%40carlos&forum_name=aufs-users>
Subject: Re: aufs 20071015 not good?
21 Oct 2007, Jim Garlick posted his patch for Red Hat's EL5
linux-2.6.18.
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=Pine.LNX.4.61.0710191415100.32494%40nine&forum_name=aufs-users>
Subject: <personal mail>
10 Oct 2007, Luis Carlos Erpen de Bona told me aufs is being used
widely in their remote boot system at 2,000 schools.
<http://www.c3sl.ufpr.br/en/projetos_prd.html>
Subject: Re: aufs with 2.6.15 and busybox not working
6 Oct 2007, Philipp Wehrheim posted that he ran aufs on linux-2.6.15.
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=47040B8A.5080008%40gmx.net&forum_name=aufs-users>
Subject: Re: Makefile?
4 Aug and 26 Nov 2007, Russell Harmon posted his Makefile which supports:
- build
- patch
- install
- update
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=9c4865a10707181414m65d6eee4ge8b5bff89c98a1fd%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=aufs-users>
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=9c4865a10711260559k319546dcibe751e2c916c2359%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=aufs-users>
Subject: Re: Not all files are deleted
3 Jul 2007, Philippe Malinge posted a problem of rm(1) in RHEL 4
(coreutils 5.2.1).
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Subject: A script useful for creating targets for embedded devices
9 Apr 2007, Sandino Flores Moreno posted his script for embedded
device.
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=30472ef40704092038n34df2c3ao789fbf63a58fa3e%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=aufs-users>
Subject: <personal mail>
03 Apr 2007, Ulrich Holeschak told me that 'dlgt' option works
with AppArmor on SUSE 10.2 Kernel.
Subject: aufs backport to kernel < 2.6.15
29 Mar 2007, Hans-Peter Jansen posted that he ran aufs on SuSE 9.3
linux-2.6.11.
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The patch was merged into aufs source files.
Subject: aufs and vserver
29 Mar 2007, Wilhelm Meier posted his patch for linux-vserver.
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The patch was upgraded and placed in CVS_TREE/aufs/patch.
Subject: <personal mail>
14 Mar 2007, Wilhelm Meier told me he succeeded exporting aufs via
NFS and using it with over 100 NFS clients.
Subject: Re: Gentoo Ebuild for aufs-20070205 ~x86
8 Feb 2007, Torsten Kockler posted that he created Gentoo ebuild for
aufs.
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=45CB1C1D.7060702%40fh-kl.de&forum_name=aufs-users>
Subject: [PATCH] Kconfig for in-kernel aufs
12 Jan 2007, Jason Lunz posted a patch for compiling aufs as part of
the normal kernel tree.
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The patch was upgraded and become 'kconfig' target of local.mk.
Subject: Diskless Clients with aufs and fscache
18 Jan 2007, Wilhelm Meier posted his script for diskless client.
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=200701181332.15294.wilhelm.meier%40fh-kl.de&forum_name=aufs-users>
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