Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:45:41 -0400 | From | rmoser <> | Subject | Re: File System conversion -- ideas |
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On 6/29/2003 at 8:42 PM viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
>On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 08:28:47PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: >> Consider that many people choose ext3 rather than reiser simply >> because it is easy to convert ext2 to ext3, and hard to convert ext2 >> to reiser (and hard to convert back if they don't like it). I have >> seen this written by many people who choose to use ext3. Thus proving >> that there is value in in-place filesystem conversion :) > >Uh-huh. You want to get in-kernel conversion between ext* and reiserfs? >With recoverable state if aborted? Get real.
no, in-kernel conversion between everything. You don't think it can be done? It's not that difficult a problem to manage data like that :D
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