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Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 01:12:44 -0400
From: Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2@cornell.edu>
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> Why do people ever want a "converter"?

That's been discussed before.
Because people don't have the resources (hard disk space, tape drives, 
money)  to backup their data, and might still be interested in testing a 
new filesystem. They might be willing to take a risk with the new fs 
and converter. Amazing as it may sound, people do that. I am such a 
tester, and I'd find a converter to be a useful tool. But since the 
previous discussion on the subject concluded it'd be really hard to 
impossible to write one, I guess I'll have to settle for new hard drive(s).

"It's going to be a major pain if I'll have to back things up and 
reinitialize partitions..."
<-- This is why


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