Am Freitag, den 21.10.2005, 20:03 +0200 schrieb Darko Ilic: > On Friday 21 October 2005 16:18, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > So, as far as unionfs goes, it's up to the developers to approach the > > kernel people about inclusion in the upstream sources. So someone needs > > to push the unionfs developers. > > Well, having unionfs included in the kernel would be *great* for live CDs. > > If we could push both unionfs and SquashFS to go upstream, that would > improve the quality of live CDs dramatically. > >[...] > The main question for me is how to accomplish this. I'm quite new to the whole > thing, and maybe I wouldn't choose the right approach to the kernel people... > Is there anybody that is willing to help me with this? An advice would be > just fine. We're working on a kernel-module-standard for fedora-extras. I can package unionfs and SqashFS then if that would be enough for the LiveCD. But there might be a small problem with SqashFS and the initrd: -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- > Von: Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha <strange@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Antwort an: Development discussions related to Fedora Core > <fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > An: Development discussions related to Fedora Core > <fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Betreff: Re: kernel-modules in extras (Was: Re: SquashFS?) > Datum: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:08:27 +0100 > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 07:10:23AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, den 20.10.2005, 18:35 -0700 schrieb Toshio Kuratomi: > > >[...] > > >3) We integrate these modules in Extras. > > Just out of curiosity: Can squashfs or unionfs build as a module > > without patching the core kernel? > > UnionFS can. > The rpm package in http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/old/luciano/unionfs.src.rpm > includes a rc.d script for mounting and mounting unionfs defined in > /etc/unionfstab on startup. > > > SquashFS can also. > > The package in http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/old/luciano/squashfs2.2r2-mod.tar.gz > includes only the driver sources, slightly changed for compilation as a > module: > * #include <linux/squash...> -> #include "squash..." > * #define CONFIG_SQUASHFS_FRAGMENT_CACHE_SIZE 3 (the default) > * no patching of do_mounts, so no initrd support > > Compilation: > make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=$PWD modules -- Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
