Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:29:51 +0100 | From | viro@parcelfa ... | Subject | Re: File System conversion -- ideas |
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 01:36:41PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote: > I tend to agree with the below. I just want to add though that there > are a lot of users who have one disk drive and and no decent network > connection to somewhere with a lot of storage. It would be nice to > adapt tar to understand about the reiser4 resizer and mkreiser4 and the > reiser3 resizer, and the partitioner (yah, at this point it would no > longer really be tar, but.... ), and to have it shrink the V3 partition, > create a reiser4 partition, copy some of the V3 partition to the V4 > partition, shrink the V3 partition some more, etc..... > > Money will get us to do this. Otherwise we will work on what we are > contracted to do for DARPA.
*Ugh*. If one really wants reiserfs v3 -> v4 conversion, presumably there are much more intelligent ways to do that. For one thing, you really don't want to create an empty tree and move the stuff from original node-by-node - that would give a shitload of IO on tree rebalancing alone, not to mention the PITA it will be for allocator (you get to reshuffle trees a lot on potentially almost full fs). - 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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