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Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 17:05:15 +0400
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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To: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
CC: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>, Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2@cornell.edu>,
       Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: reiserfs4
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Tomas Szepe wrote:

>>[green@namesys.com]
>>
>>    
>>
>>>>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).
>>>      
>>>
>>This is no longer true.
>>There is sort of "universal" fs convertor for linux that can convert almost
>>any fs to almost any other fs.
>>The only requirement seems to be that both fs types should have read/write support in Linux.
>>http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/
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>
>I'm afraid I cannot recommend using this tool.
>
>A test conversion from reiserfs to ext3 (inside a vmware machine)
>screwed up the data real horrorshow: directory structure seems
>ok but file contents are apparently shifted.
>
>  
>
Are you sure that vmware does not affect the result?

-- 
Hans


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