From: Jesse Pollard <jesse@cats-chateau.net>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Cc: rmoser <mlmoser@comcast.net>,
viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File System conversion -- ideas
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 08:56:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <03063008562302.14007@tabby> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F003E40.1040902@namesys.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-30 13:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-29 10:11 File System conversion -- ideas John Bradford
2003-06-29 13:28 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-06-29 13:50 ` David D. Hagood
2003-06-29 18:31 ` rmoser
2003-06-29 19:55 ` David D. Hagood
2003-06-29 20:05 ` rmoser
2003-06-29 20:41 ` David D. Hagood
2003-06-29 20:53 ` rmoser
2003-06-29 20:22 ` Leonard Milcin Jr.
2003-06-30 16:05 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-06-30 16:59 ` Leonard Milcin Jr.
2003-06-30 17:04 ` Kevin Corry
2003-06-30 17:37 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-07-01 9:56 ` Stewart Smith
2003-06-29 13:54 ` Leonard Milcin Jr.
2003-06-29 18:45 ` rmoser
2003-06-29 19:37 ` Leonard Milcin Jr.
2003-06-29 19:43 ` Leonard Milcin Jr.
2003-06-29 19:48 ` rmoser
2003-06-30 3:52 ` Horst von Brand
2003-07-01 10:15 ` Stewart Smith
2003-07-01 14:55 ` Leonard Milcin Jr.
2003-07-01 15:41 ` Stewart Smith
2003-07-01 16:19 ` Leonard Milcin Jr.
2003-06-29 19:44 ` rmoser
2003-06-29 19:44 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-06-29 19:46 ` rmoser
2003-06-29 20:02 ` viro
2003-06-29 20:26 ` Leonard Milcin Jr.
2003-06-29 20:31 ` rmoser
2003-07-01 10:01 ` Stewart Smith
2003-06-29 19:28 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-06-29 19:35 ` rmoser
2003-06-29 19:42 ` viro
2003-06-29 19:45 ` rmoser
2003-06-29 20:00 ` viro
2003-06-29 20:19 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-06-29 20:25 ` viro
2003-06-29 20:45 ` rmoser
2003-06-29 20:46 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-06-30 9:13 ` Nikita Danilov
2003-06-29 20:38 ` rmoser
2003-06-29 20:29 ` rmoser
2003-06-29 20:50 ` Hugo Mills
2003-06-29 21:00 ` rmoser
2003-06-29 21:10 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-06-29 21:37 ` Hugo Mills
2003-06-29 21:54 ` rmoser
2003-06-29 22:25 ` Hugo Mills
2003-06-29 20:51 ` viro
2003-06-29 21:07 ` rmoser
2003-06-29 21:08 ` Chris Friesen
2003-06-30 0:25 ` Jan Harkes
2003-06-30 0:59 ` rmoser
2003-07-01 20:03 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-02 14:49 ` Jan Kara
2003-06-29 20:05 ` David D. Hagood
2003-06-29 20:36 ` rmoser
2003-06-30 0:05 ` Richard Braakman
2003-06-30 0:58 ` rmoser
2003-06-29 21:32 ` Diego Calleja García
2003-06-30 13:26 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-06-30 13:42 ` Hans Reiser
2003-06-30 13:56 ` Jesse Pollard [this message]
2003-07-06 19:30 ` Svein Ove Aas
2003-06-29 18:26 ` rmoser
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-07 8:43 John Bradford
2003-07-01 16:04 Matt Reuther
2003-07-01 16:13 ` Frank Gevaerts
2003-06-30 14:11 John Bradford
2003-06-30 15:45 ` Leonard Milcin Jr.
2003-06-30 8:55 John Bradford
2003-06-30 9:36 ` Hans Reiser
2003-06-30 16:29 ` viro
2003-06-29 21:59 John Bradford
2003-06-29 20:20 John Bradford
2003-06-29 20:44 ` rmoser
2003-06-29 20:06 John Bradford
2003-06-29 18:58 John Bradford
2003-06-29 19:12 ` rmoser
2003-06-29 18:37 John Bradford
2003-06-29 18:48 ` rmoser
2003-06-29 19:42 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-06-29 16:24 John Bradford
2003-06-29 16:13 John Bradford
2003-06-29 19:16 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-06-29 6:57 rmoser
2003-06-30 13:05 ` Jesse Pollard
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