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Joe Thornber <thornber@sistina.com> writes:

>> 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 ?

None.  Neither will go into 2.4, if I've understood things correctly.

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