From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262308AbTLJAt3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 19:49:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262375AbTLJAt3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 19:49:29 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:36029 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262308AbTLJAt2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 19:49:28 -0500 X-Authenticated: #15936885 Message-ID: <3FD66D87.8030109@gmx.net> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 01:49:11 +0100 From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030821 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com CC: thornber@sistina.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Device-mapper submission for 2.4 X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, 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 ? > > Expected question... > > XFS is a totally different filesystem from the ones present in 2.4. Please give me a pointer about what's so different about XFS. Last time I looked, XFS features were mostly equivalent to those of other journaling file systems. This is a honest question, not a flamebait. Thanks, Carl-Daniel