Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sun, 29 Jun 2003 21:25:09 +0100 | From | viro@parcelfa ... | Subject | Re: File System conversion -- ideas |
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On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 01:19:24PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > AFAICS, it is _very_ hard to implement. Even outside of the kernel. > > If you can get it done - well, that might do a lot for having the > > idea considered seriously. "Might" since you need to do it in a way > > that would survive transplantation into the kernel _and_ would scale > > better that O((number of filesystem types)^2). > > Maybe defining a "neutral" metadata export/import might help in limiting > such NFS^2 ...
Go for it - do it in userland, define the mapping between various sorts of metadata and let's see how well you can make it work. Have fun. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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