Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 14:44:06 -0400 From: Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: GEOM portable filesystem abstraction? Message-ID: <c8iu9o$jd9$1@sea.gmane.org>
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Hello, I know next to nothing about GEOM, other than what the man page says (which I admittedly didn't read in full), so I'm probably totally off base, but I thought I'd ask this anyway: It seems like GEOM functions as a bit of a disk abstraction layer in FreeBSD. Would it be possible to port the GEOM subsystem as a loadable kernel module to Linux (and perhaps other OSes) to facilitate pluggable, portable filesystem code? I'm constantly frustrated by the fact that Linux and BSD are OPEN SOURCE OSes, but they *still* can't write each other's file systems any better than they can write the reverse engineered NTFS filesystem. Perhaps if GEOM were ported to Linux then Linux could use FreeBSD's UFS2 code to read FreeBSD UFS filesystems? Perhaps a windows and MacOSX GEOM kernel module could follow? Is that entirely too far fetched? -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net
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