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From: Jesse Pollard <jesse@cats-chateau.net>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: File System conversion -- ideas
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 08:56:23 -0500
Cc: rmoser <mlmoser@comcast.net>, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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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.

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