Re: File System conversion -- ideas

[Leonard Milcin Jr.]

Stewart Smith wrote:
> This is exactly what has been said before in this thread
>  - i.e. mount the new FS over the old one (union style)
> and new writes go to the new FS.
> 
> I really thing LVM resizing automagick would be the way to go to.
> *much* cleaner and easier to implement.
> 
> The real useful thing to do would be to write a utility that would
> convert non-LVM systems to LVM.
> 

I said that too, some time ago. But don't know why it didn't reach LKML.
Perhaps my fault...

LVM resizing would be very good, because most of it is already coded.

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