Re: Device-mapper submission for 2.4

Joe Thornber
2003-12-09T14:34:16Z

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