Money will get us to do this. Otherwise we will work on what we are
contracted to do for DARPA.
Hans
John Bradford wrote:
>>>I typically call that 'tar' and it works great whenever I want to
>>>convert from one filesystem to another. I just haven't got a clue why
>>>you want to implement tar (or cpio) in the kernel as the userspace
>>>implementation is already pretty usable.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>tar --inplace --fs-convert --targetfs=reiserfs /dev/hda1
>>
>>....... it doesn't like it
>>
>>
>
>tar -cf - -C /old_filesystem | tar -xf - -C /newfilesystem
>
>Works fine, and copies symbolic links, and device files properly. If
>you don't want sparse files expanded, you can use --sparse.
>
>Yes, it needs both old and new filesystems on-line at once. That
>isn't a problem for a lot of users.
>
>It has the advantage over an on-line conversion utility that the files
>are layed out in the way they were intended to be by the filesystem,
>for performance, and anti-fragmentation reasons.
>
>
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