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Date:      Thu, 20 May 2004 13:50:47 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
To:        Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GEOM portable filesystem abstraction?
Message-ID:  <20040520185047.GA98339@sirius.firepipe.net>
In-Reply-To: <c8iu9o$jd9$1@sea.gmane.org>
References:  <c8iu9o$jd9$1@sea.gmane.org>

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On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 02:44:06PM -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> 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?

GEOM is below the filesystem layer and thus wouldn't help you
with the filesystem portability issue.

Regards,
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