Linux kernel 6.12.50 compiled

A week ago, compiled the 6.12.48 kernel, with extra modules required to support wireguard and wg-quick:

• Aiming to support Wireguard — September 25, 2025

Now that we have embraced overlayfs, replacing aufs, there are new problems. Have worked through them, see recent blog posts; however, have not yet got direct-save to work. Attempting direct-save has brought with it the dreaded "cross-device link" error message, that I have complained about over the years. That error has kept me away from overlay, as aufs "just works". Or rather has just-worked until recently.

I want to experiment with different ways to use overlay, including tmpfs as a layer. Then I realised that the kernel requires xattrs enabled for tmpfs, but it isn't. So, I have compiled the 6.12.50 kernel, with "Tmpfs POSIX Access Control Lists" and "Tmpfs extended attributes" enabled:

Now to do some more experimenting with overlay...   

Tags: easy