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Re: converting file system



Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
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.

Or someone exaggerated. Sheesh... no need to hero-worship the bug report. The bigger the filesystem, the longer it would take, nothing rocket-science there... and if it's inefficient, you could get away with saying "weeks"... but that doesn't mean it really did.

Nate



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