Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 12:36:39 +0100 (CET) From: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Like to commit my diskprep Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10011061233190.36412-100000@login-1.eunet.no> In-Reply-To: <200011040532.eA45WEo65619@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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> Would this become a new filesystem, e.g. extfs v.s. ext2fs -- ufs v.s. > ufs2? If not, would there be some kind of conversion procedure or The time might be right for a u2fs, but that was not what he suggested that he could spend time on. I am working on something in this area, but progress has slowed to a crawl due to lack of time and hardware for testing. This will hopefully be resolved now. > would existing filesystem have to be backed up, reinitialised and > restored? Or instead, would the filesystem convert to the new format > on the fly? Any decent future format would hopefully be able to handle on-the-fly conversions. I've got the stubs for a fat16->ffs converter here, it doesn't seem to be all that hard to do conversions. The problem lies with restartability. But if you design for this ahead, you have no problem. Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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