GEOM portable filesystem abstraction?

Will Andrews will at csociety.org
Thu May 20 11:50:48 PDT 2004


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,
-- 
wca
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