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Subject: Re: GEOM portable filesystem abstraction?
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Will Andrews wrote:

> 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.

Well, that's kinda the point. If you want to port filesystems
to multiple architectures/OSes, then you need a common underlying
infrastructure. I was thinking GEOM might be it. Plus, GEOM
makes GBDE encrypted volumes possible.

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