Re: Device-mapper submission for 2.4

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

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

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