Re: File System conversion -- ideas

rmoser
2003-06-29T19:33:53Z

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On 6/29/2003 at 8:42 PM viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:

>On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 08:28:47PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>> Consider that many people choose ext3 rather than reiser simply
>> because it is easy to convert ext2 to ext3, and hard to convert ext2
>> to reiser (and hard to convert back if they don't like it). I have
>> seen this written by many people who choose to use ext3. Thus proving
>> that there is value in in-place filesystem conversion :)
>
>Uh-huh. You want to get in-kernel conversion between ext* and reiserfs?
>With recoverable state if aborted? Get real.

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