Re: File System conversion -- ideas

Jesse Pollard
2003-06-30T13:42:29Z

On Monday 30 June 2003 08:42, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Jesse Pollard wrote:
[snip]
> >>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
> >
> >You are ASSUMING that the new filesystem requires lessthan or equal amount
> >of metadata. This is NOT always true. A conversion of a full EXT2 to
> > Riserfs would fail simply because there is no free space to expand the
> > needed additional overhead.
>
> Uh, you mean converting reiserfs to ext2 would fail.... we are more
> space efficient....

yes. stupid me got the order backward.