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RvP wrote:
> From: "Mike (mwester)" <mwester@dls.net>
>> 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. 
> 
> Are they? I read on the unionfs site that they are part of the -mm tree as of
> Jan. 2007, but, you're probably right. OpenWRT does use unionfs per default
> with a 2.6.24 kernel.

No, you're right - I looked more closely, it's still not made it into 
the 2.6.24 kernel.

>> Do you really need them?
> 
> Not anymore, I was looking for a way to install extra pakages for SlugOS on
> an external drive. I found in the docs that a copy of the complete rootfs can
> be installed on an external drive using 'turnup' (NSLU2 specific tool). I'll
> go that way.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Richard.

Cool.  Turnup is the right way to do it with SlugOS.  But I do still 
plan to get unionfs into the SlugOS feeds at some point.  It does look 
like at the moment that means fixing that recipe somehow; something that 
won't be simple (since the patch downloaded depends on the kernel 
version the recipe is being built for).

Thanks,
Mike (mwester)