Hi ,

I have downloaded linux-3.13 source code, applied "aufs" patch on it, built it and installed.

Now I want to add some debug statements to "aufs" and want to compile only "aufs" code as compiling whole kernel will take much time and I have to be always in wait mode.

Is there any way ?

Please let me know ..

Sorry. You have to rebuild the kernel, aufs is a file system and is included in the kernel build; it is not a module which could be rebuilt separately.

Once you have the kernel built you can make changes to any of the source files you want.

Then just use "make" and the install directives (for aufs, I think you an go to "make modules_install"), but that depends on whether you configured aufs to be a module.

the advantage of the "module" approach is that you don't have to reboot to use it. dismount the aufs mounted filesystem, unload the aufs module and reload it after the "make modules_install" ... This will update the module allowing the new one to be used without a reboot.

Thankfs for your replies.

Can we do any changes to any make file and build only necessary soources ?

The make should only build necessary sources. But better, as jpollard pointed out there, you can configure aufs to be a module. You will have to rebuild the kernel and modules; however once you've done that the first time, you can then just rebuild the aufs module.