Re: File System conversion -- ideas

[John Bradford]

> I tend to agree with the below.  I just want to add though that there 
> are a lot of users who have one disk drive and and no decent network 
> connection to somewhere with a lot of storage.  It would be nice to 
> adapt tar to understand about the reiser4 resizer and mkreiser4 and the 
> reiser3 resizer, and the partitioner (yah, at this point it would no 
> longer really be tar, but.... ), and to have it shrink the V3 partition, 
> create a reiser4 partition, copy some of the V3 partition to the V4 
> partition, shrink the V3 partition some more, etc.....

Out of interest, won't the resulting filesystem be excessively
fragmented, and cause worse performance than a virgin filesystem, or
does the reiser resizer actively prevent that?

John.