Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:11:08 +0100
From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Message-Id: <200306301411.h5UEB8uL000195@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>
To: john@grabjohn.com, reiser@namesys.com
Subject: Re: File System conversion -- ideas
Cc: jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mlmoser@comcast.net
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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> I tend to agree with the below.  I just want to add though that there 
> are a lot of users who have one disk drive and and no decent network 
> connection to somewhere with a lot of storage.  It would be nice to 
> adapt tar to understand about the reiser4 resizer and mkreiser4 and the 
> reiser3 resizer, and the partitioner (yah, at this point it would no 
> longer really be tar, but.... ), and to have it shrink the V3 partition, 
> create a reiser4 partition, copy some of the V3 partition to the V4 
> partition, shrink the V3 partition some more, etc.....

Out of interest, won't the resulting filesystem be excessively
fragmented, and cause worse performance than a virgin filesystem, or
does the reiser resizer actively prevent that?

John.
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