Re: File System conversion -- ideas

rmoser
2003-06-29T20:33:22Z

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On 6/29/2003 at 9:25 PM viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:

>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.

You sound like virt
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