Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Dec 2003 14:36:11 +0000 | From | Joe Thornber <> | Subject | Re: Device-mapper submission for 2.4 |
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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.
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