Re: File System conversion -- ideas

Nikita Danilov
2003-06-30T08:58:56Z

viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk writes:
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 01:19:24PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
> > > AFAICS, it is _very_ hard to implement. Even outside of the kernel.
> > > If you can get it done - well, that might do a lot for having the
> > > idea considered seriously. "Might" since you need to do it in a way
> > > that would survive transplantation into the kernel _and_ would scale
> > > better that O((number of filesystem types)^2).
> >
> > Maybe defining a "neutral" metadata export/import might help in limiting
> > such NFS^2 ...
>
> Go for it - do it in userland, define the mapping between various sorts
> of metadata and let's see how well you can make it work. Have fun.

Some people are actually doing this:

http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/

> -

Nikita.