Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:11:08 +0100 | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: File System conversion -- ideas |
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> 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?
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