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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: ext3 -> reiserfs conversion utility?
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 00:25:01 -0700
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To: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
Cc: Nick Bartos <spam99@2thebatcave.com>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com

David Masover wrote:

>
>
> Nick Bartos wrote:
> <snip>
> | From what I am reading, everyone just backs up their files and then
> | reformats & restores the files.
>
> For any two filesystems, it's highly unlikely that you can just convert
> between the two.  I mean, theoretically yes, practically?  There's not
> even funding (I think) for a reiser 3-4 conversion.

No, read about convertfs, it uses loop back file mounting and vfs, and 
it is very clever and elegant.