From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S275193AbTHGH1x (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 03:27:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S275200AbTHGH1x (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 03:27:53 -0400 Received: from angband.namesys.com ([212.16.7.85]:3763 "EHLO angband.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S275193AbTHGH1w (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 03:27:52 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 11:27:51 +0400 From: Oleg Drokin To: Ivan Gyurdiev Cc: Andreas Dilger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: reiserfs4 Message-ID: <20030807072751.GA23912@namesys.com> References: <200308070305.51868.vlad@lazarenko.net> <20030806230220.I7752@schatzie.adilger.int> <3F31DFCC.6040504@cornell.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F31DFCC.6040504@cornell.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello! On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 01:12:44AM -0400, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote: > >Why do people ever want a "converter"? > That's been discussed before. > Because people don't have the resources (hard disk space, tape drives, > money) to backup their data, and might still be interested in testing a > new filesystem. They might be willing to take a risk with the new fs > and converter. Amazing as it may sound, people do that. I am such a > tester, and I'd find a converter to be a useful tool. But since the > previous discussion on the subject concluded it'd be really hard to > impossible to write one, I guess I'll have to settle for new hard drive(s). This is no longer true. There is sort of "universal" fs convertor for linux that can convert almost any fs to almost any other fs. The only requirement seems to be that both fs types should have read/write support in Linux. http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/ Bye, Oleg