Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264911AbTF2TyM (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:54:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264592AbTF2Tws (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:52:48 -0400 Received: from oak.sktc.net ([64.71.97.14]:56286 "EHLO oak.sktc.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263782AbTF2Tu6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:50:58 -0400 Message-ID: <3EFF4677.4050002@sktc.net> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:05:11 -0500 From: "David D. Hagood" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rmoser CC: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: File System conversion -- ideas References: <200306291011.h5TABQXB000391@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <20030629132807.GA25170@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <3EFEEF8F.7050607@post.pl> <20030629192847.GB26258@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <20030629194215.GG27348@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <200306291545410600.02136814@smtp.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <200306291545410600.02136814@smtp.comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 823 Lines: 24 rmoser wrote: > 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 OK, then - Show Us The Code. Everyone else who have expressed an opinion believe an in-kernel converter to be far to difficult to get right. You disagree, and think it should be easy. So write it. Show us the code. Change our minds. You opened with a a "This should be possible". We raised you a "No, it's hard, here's other ways to do it." You raised with a "It should be easy." I call. Let's see your cards. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/