Messages in this thread | | | From | Jesse Pollard <> | Subject | Re: File System conversion -- ideas | Date | Mon, 30 Jun 2003 08:56:23 -0500 |
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On Monday 30 June 2003 08:42, Hans Reiser wrote: > Jesse Pollard wrote: [snip] > >>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 > > > >You are ASSUMING that the new filesystem requires lessthan or equal amount > >of metadata. This is NOT always true. A conversion of a full EXT2 to > > Riserfs would fail simply because there is no free space to expand the > > needed additional overhead. > > Uh, you mean converting reiserfs to ext2 would fail.... we are more > space efficient....
yes. stupid me got the order backward.
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