[oe] union fs

Mike (mwester) mwester at dls.net
Mon Apr 14 16:49:02 UTC 2008


RvP wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Support for unionfs-modules with recent kernels is broken in oe, see
> http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1189.
> 
> Are there plans to fix this?

The unionfs modules are part of the 2.6 kernel now.  Do you really need 
them?

Unslung is the only distro AFAIK that is still based on a 2.4 kernel; 
and unionfs is not very useful (the obvious use, which is to use ntfs-3g 
to replace the buggy Linksys proprietary ntfs driver is not write-safe, 
and thus isn't useful).

I would suspect that we can simply drop the modules build from unionfs. 
  (But perhaps leave the recipe present in case someone else wants very 
much to try to get ntfs-3g working on unslung.)

Mike (mwester)




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