On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 04:29:36PM -0700, Thomas Lau wrote:
> why not make a converter that can convert ext2 to reiserfs?
No one has yet made such a beast.
> is it hard to make ?
In theory, no -- in practice, its a lot of work.
I had a think about how to make a generic unix-fs converter for
various fs types, and so long as you can keep _all_ the metadata in
memory (swap might be too slow), then the logic behind such a beast
might not be so hard.
Basically, the idea I had was to build a tree of the entire fs, then
for the destination fs type (you would be restricted in terms of block
size and alignment) move/bubble out any data blocks out for the way
for the bitmaps/whatever that gave to be laid out, then write out the
metadata.
I talked briefly to someone in order to try to get them to develop
such a thing commercially, but as of now, they have limited resources.
--cw
