Patching kernel with aufs (riding a dead horse?)

[Carsten Aulbert]

Moin^WHi

Thomas Lange schrieb:
>     > Has someone got a patch ready which I can apply to a recent 2.6.27 (or
>     > later) kernel to get aufs in there? I've been struggling yesterday
>     > evening without much success to get this into the kernel tree, somehow I
>     > made something wrong:
> Have a look at grml. IIRC they use a very recent kernel, and they also
> use FAI and live-initramfs to build their live CD.
> 

I'm using that now, but it breaks in the initramfs:

debug output from live.log (typed in manually, so might contain typos)

+ mount -t aufs -o
noatime,dirs=/cow=rw:/live/image/live/filesystem.dir=rr aufs /root


mount: mounting aufs on /root failed: No such device
+ panic mount aufs on      /root failed with option
noatim,dirs=/cow=rw:/live/image/live/filesystem.dir=rr

then a few lines showing the variables DEB_{1,2,3,4}, LIVELOG and DEBUG

then I get the shell

The directory /root exists (part of / whicih is of type rootfs (rw)

/live/image is of type nfs (/srv/fai/nfsroot on the nfs server)

/cow is of type tmpfs(rw)

Any idea? So far google only gave me blanks.

Thanks a lot

Carsten