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SubjectRe: File System conversion -- ideas
> 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.....

Out of interest, won't the resulting filesystem be excessively
fragmented, and cause worse performance than a virgin filesystem, or
does the reiser resizer actively prevent that?

John.
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