I haven't been able to find a clear reason as to why AUFS seems to have lost support from major distros - although the fact that it requires patching VFS in the kernel and isn't "just a module" doesn't help.
Yeah. That part is true. I think you are probably onto the reason there. For RHEL distributions at least all I've seen included are the fuse based unioning filesystems which is sad.
If overlayFS is in-tree, then it's a possibility to be backported by Red Hat. From the discussions on the GitHub issue tracker, there's a definite problem with custom kernels vs RHEL supported w/ contract.
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I haven't been able to find a clear reason as to why AUFS seems to have lost support from major distros - although the fact that it requires patching VFS in the kernel and isn't "just a module" doesn't help.
Yeah. That part is true. I think you are probably onto the reason there. For RHEL distributions at least all I've seen included are the fuse based unioning filesystems which is sad.
Don't think that's it. OverlayFS was accepted and also requires patching VFS.
If overlayFS is in-tree, then it's a possibility to be backported by Red Hat. From the discussions on the GitHub issue tracker, there's a definite problem with custom kernels vs RHEL supported w/ contract.