Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262530AbTGAQAA (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2003 12:00:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262584AbTGAQAA (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2003 12:00:00 -0400 Received: from smtp1.xs4all.be ([195.144.64.135]:37809 "EHLO smtp1.xs4all.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262530AbTGAP77 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2003 11:59:59 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 18:13:51 +0200 From: Frank Gevaerts To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: File System conversion -- ideas Message-ID: <20030701161351.GA24291@gevaerts.be> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-flash-is-evil: do not use it X-virus: If this mail contains a virus, feel free to send one back X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-3.8, required 5, AWL, EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION, IN_REP_TO, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MUTT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 757 Lines: 18 On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:04:37PM -0400, Matt Reuther wrote: > It seems like the loopback device would be useful for this. You can move > all of you stuff into a mounted loopback device with the new fs. Is there > not some utility to take a filesystem image from inside an fs, and > overwrite that fs with it. It would be lots of sector-to-sector shuffling, > but it would be cleaner than trying to convert. http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/ as someone (I don't remember who) said earlier. Frank > Matt - 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/