Re: converting file system
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:15:42PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> from the RM bug report:
>
> - The final step in converting a filesystem, reordering the blocks of
> the target filesystem, is apparently programmed in a very inefficient
> way, and it can take weeks for large filesystems to complete
> convertfs.
> ----------------------^^^^^^
>
>
> imagine if you didn't know that going in...
>
In order for that to appear in the report, someone must have found out
the hard way. To know that it took weeks (instead of, say, a weekend),
someone had the patience of Job to know that after weeks it did
complete.
Doug.
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