Messages in this thread | | | From | Nikita Danilov <> | Date | Mon, 30 Jun 2003 13:13:12 +0400 | Subject | Re: File System conversion -- ideas |
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viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk writes: > 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.
Some people are actually doing this:
http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/
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