From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
Cc: Joe Thornber <joe@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk>,
Guillaume Boissiere <boissiere@adiglobal.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6] Most likely to be merged by Halloween... THE LIST
Date: 22 Jul 2002 19:00:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1027360827.32299.64.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E17WgIv-0002Yc-00@starship>
On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 17:45, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > So we end up with twice as much code to debug and lots of
> > incompatibilities when people want to switch around.
>
> If that were a problem, Linux would only have one filesystem.
The device mapper functionality is generic. We only have one VFS, we
only need one mapping layer. What cool stuff people build on top of the
mapping layer is another matter. If the mapping layer supports all of
the requirements its done right, if not its borked and wants fixing
first.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-22 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-18 4:49 Guillaume Boissiere
2002-07-18 6:08 ` Greg KH
2002-07-18 16:14 ` Greg KH
2002-07-20 7:41 ` Shane Nay
2002-07-20 8:22 ` Russell King
[not found] ` <200207200805.BAA20399@granite.he.net>
2002-07-20 17:27 ` Greg KH
2002-07-18 8:20 ` Dave Jones
2002-07-18 8:36 ` Stephen Lord
2002-07-18 9:23 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-07-18 14:31 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-07-18 16:47 ` Anton Blanchard
2002-07-19 15:08 ` Hubertus Franke
2002-07-18 16:15 ` Greg KH
2002-07-18 16:17 ` Greg KH
2002-07-18 16:39 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 22:19 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-18 16:46 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-07-18 20:22 ` Dave Jones
2002-07-18 23:17 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-19 1:18 ` Peter Osterlund
2002-07-19 9:40 ` Peter Osterlund
2002-07-23 9:39 ` Jens Axboe
2002-07-23 13:09 ` Peter Osterlund
2002-07-24 6:24 ` Jens Axboe
2002-07-20 13:06 ` Miles Lane
2002-07-22 20:50 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-07-19 4:45 ` Guillaume Boissiere
2002-07-19 17:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-22 10:23 ` Joe Thornber
2002-07-22 15:22 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-22 16:57 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-22 16:45 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-22 18:00 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-07-23 22:33 ` Bill Davidsen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-26 16:12 Ben Rafanello
2002-07-29 9:00 ` Joe Thornber
2002-07-25 17:36 Ben Rafanello
2002-07-26 8:16 ` Joe Thornber
2002-07-22 23:47 Ben Rafanello
2002-07-22 21:42 Steve Pratt
2002-07-23 8:16 ` Joe Thornber
2002-07-22 18:31 Ben Rafanello
2002-07-22 19:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-23 8:26 ` Joe Thornber
[not found] <OF918E6F71.637B1CBC-ON85256BFB.004CDDD0@pok.ibm.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <1027199147.16819.39.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-07-21 6:57 ` Andi Kleen
2002-07-21 7:23 ` Austin Gonyou
2002-07-21 8:33 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-07-21 8:47 ` Andi Kleen
2002-07-21 13:40 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-21 14:10 ` Andi Kleen
2002-07-21 15:52 ` Alasdair Kergon
2002-07-23 16:41 ` Timothy D. Witham
2002-07-21 4:42 Tom Walcott
2002-07-21 13:48 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-21 16:39 ` Tom Walcott
2002-07-19 14:05 Mark Peloquin
2002-07-20 21:05 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-20 20:30 ` Austin Gonyou
2002-07-20 20:55 ` David Weinehall
2002-07-20 21:24 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-07-21 0:24 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-21 1:47 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-07-26 8:52 ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen
2002-07-21 20:44 ` Ernst Lehmann
2002-07-19 2:00 Val Henson
2002-07-18 11:57 Martin Knoblauch
[not found] <OF918E6F71.637B1CBC-ON85256BFB.004CDDD0@pok.ibm.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel >
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