Please reconsider keeping aufs module in linux-image-3.5.0

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Here you are:
root@precise:~# uname -r
3.2.0-6-generic

root@precise:~# modprobe -v aufs
FATAL: Module aufs not found.

root@precise:~# dpkg -L linux-image-3.2.0-6-generic | grep -i aufs || echo "Not found"
Not found

Ubuntu precise did ship in the end with aufs:

~# modprobe -v aufs
insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-30-generic/kernel/ubuntu/aufs/aufs.ko

However, it was removed for quantal, which ships kernel v3.5:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-quantal.git;a=commitdiff;h=d38cbebe93dd4f4accc737b240826f103109c27a

Given serious problems listed at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bugs?field.searchtext=overlayfs, I would like to ask the ubuntu kernel maintainers to reconsider shipping aufs for now.

For our site here (student lab at uni-erlangen), bug #1039402 is quite serious as it hinders the rollout and testing of quantal for our lab.

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.5.0-15.21

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linux (3.5.0-15.21) quantal; urgency=low

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * ubuntu: AUFS -- update to 18e455787597579fe144cdb2f18aa6a0a32c46a4
  * [Config] Enable aufs
    - LP: #908784

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * eCryptfs: check for eCryptfs cipher support at mount
    - LP: #338914
  * drm/i915: pnv has a backlight polarity control bit, too
    - LP: #954661
  * drm/i915: clear up backlight #define confusion on gen4+
    - LP: #954661
  * drm/i915: properly enable the blc controller on the right pipe
    - LP: #954661
  * drm/i915: allow pipe A for lvds on gen4
    - LP: #954661
 -- Tim Gardner <email address hidden> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:37:51 -0400

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