Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 20:42:15 +0100
From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: "Leonard Milcin Jr." <thervoy@post.pl>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, mlmoser@comcast.net,
       john@grabjohn.com
Subject: Re: File System conversion -- ideas
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On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 08:28:47PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Consider that many people choose ext3 rather than reiser simply
> because it is easy to convert ext2 to ext3, and hard to convert ext2
> to reiser (and hard to convert back if they don't like it).  I have
> seen this written by many people who choose to use ext3.  Thus proving
> that there is value in in-place filesystem conversion :)

Uh-huh.  You want to get in-kernel conversion between ext* and reiserfs?
With recoverable state if aborted?  Get real.
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