Re: Device-mapper submission for 2.4

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-12-10T00:49:29Z

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