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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#963191: RFH: aufs
From:       Thomas Goirand <zigo () debian ! org>
Date:       2020-06-29 12:25:44
Message-ID: fbad2411-54bc-4b3b-f434-4b6e3a67aa35 () debian ! org
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On 6/29/20 9:32 AM, Timo Weingärtner wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> 20.06.20 13:26 Bastian Blank:
>> On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 12:14:17PM +0200, Jan Luca Naumann wrote:
>>> At the moment aufs is nearly unmaintained since I do not have time due to
>>> personal issues. Therefore, I would be happy if there is somebody to
>>> co-maintain the package.
>> Since the kernel supports overlayfs since some time now, what blocks
>> it's removal?
> 
> There are Debian installations on filesystems that are incompatible with 
> overlayfs, for example xfs without d_type.

Is it still truth that one can't add d_type to an existing xfs of
ftype=0, or is there nowadays some kind of conversion utilities I never
heard of (yet) to migrate from ftype=0 to ftype=1?

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)

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