Re: File System conversion -- ideas

viro
2003-06-29T20:13:51Z

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.