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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 14:36:11 +0000
From: Joe Thornber <thornber@sistina.com>
To: Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com>
Cc: Joe Thornber <thornber@sistina.com>,
       Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
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Subject: Re: Device-mapper submission for 2.4
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:23:50PM +0100, Stefan Smietanowski wrote:
> Joe Thornber wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:15:08AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >
> >>I believe 2.6 is the right place for the device mapper. 
> >
> >
> >So what's the difference between a new filesystem like XFS and a new
> >device driver like dm ?
> 
> One thing you're missing is that after all, XFS has existed longer than
> dm. Hell, XFS existed before 2.4 did (in a Linux form, I'm not talking
> IRIX now).

Correct, dm is only 2 and a half years old.

- Joe