Re: reiserfs patch for 2.4.0-final

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Is ext2 upgradable to reiserfs or ext3?
If so, is it transparent..or like a umount, convert, mount..or do you like
have to import to a whole new partition?
Pointers to any docs of this sort would work for an answer

Thanx,

-Tony
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Anthony J. Biacco                       Network Administrator/Engineer
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On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Chris Evans wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
> > 
> > > > Could someone create one single patch for the 2.4.0 ?
> > > >
> > > I put all the code into CVS, and Yura is making the official patch now.
> > 
> > Since 2.4.0 final should fix a few i/o performance issues
> > (particuarly under heavy write loads), a quick few ext2 vs.
> > reiserfs benchmarks would make very interesting reading ;-)
> 
> An easy way to gain a performance edge on ext2 would
> be to do proper write clustering in the reiserfs
> ->writepage() function...  </hint>
> 
> regards,
> 
> Rik
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