From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Nov 6 3:36:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no (mail-relay.eunet.no [193.71.71.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 939A537B4C5 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 03:36:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from login-1.eunet.no (login-1.eunet.no [193.75.110.2]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.9.3/GN) with ESMTP id MAA89337; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 12:36:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA36505; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 12:36:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 12:36:39 +0100 (CET) From: Marius Bendiksen To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Like to commit my diskprep In-Reply-To: <200011040532.eA45WEo65619@cwsys.cwsent.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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