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From: Andrew Clausen <clausen@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Reiser4 repackers
Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 13:59:21 +1000
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To: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
Cc: Jonathan Briggs <jbriggs@esoft.com>, "Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando" <gorlando@futuretg.com>, Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>, Reiserfs mail-list <Reiserfs-List@namesys.com>

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 09:47:00PM -0500, David Masover wrote:
> > Perhaps it would be a good idea to release at least an offline repacker.
> 
> To be able to resize.  That is the crucial feature.  Performance isn't
> quite so huge, although Hans may start squirming when someone benchmarks
> performance before and after a year of normal use -- but asking users to
> back up, recreate, and restore -- that's a bit much.

Are you familiar with convertfs?

	http://members.optusnet.com.au/clausen/ideas/convertfs.txt

Cheers,
Andrew