Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sun, 29 Jun 2003 20:59:02 -0400 | From | rmoser <> | Subject | Re: File System conversion -- ideas |
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On 6/29/2003 at 8:25 PM Jan Harkes wrote:
>On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 04:29:45PM -0400, rmoser wrote: >> NO! You're not getting the point at all! >> >> You don't need a pair! If you have 10 filesystems, you need 10 sets of >> code in each direction, not 90. You convert from the data/metadata set >> in the first filesystem to a self-contained atom, and then back from the >> atom to the data/metadata set in the new filesystem. The atom is object >> oriented, so anything that can't be moved over--like ACLs or Reiser4's >> extended attributes that nobody else has, or permissions if converting to >> vfat--is just lost. Note that if the data has an attribute like >"Compressed" >> or "encrypted", it is expanded/decrypted and thus brought back to its >> natural form before being stuffed into an atom. > >I typically call that 'tar' and it works great whenever I want to >convert from one filesystem to another. I just haven't got a clue why >you want to implement tar (or cpio) in the kernel as the userspace >implementation is already pretty usable. >
tar --inplace --fs-convert --targetfs=reiserfs /dev/hda1
....... it doesn't like it
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