Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Jun 2003 21:43:51 +0200 | From | "Leonard Milcin Jr." <> | Subject | Re: File System conversion -- ideas |
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Leonard Milcin Jr. wrote: > If you have to change filesystem type, I think it is because you have a > good reason to do it. I can't imagine the reason explaining the need of > converting filesystem if you use this system as home desktop. For > ordinary user filesystem is just used for storing data and managing > permissions to that data. These are not real-time or > performance-critical systems. Thus most of the popular filesystems like > ext2, ext3, reiserfs basically fit their needs. If they choose right > filesystem type at startup, they could use it for a time of life of > their hard disk. > > There are very few situations when you really need to convert > filesystem. Most of the time this operation is done by person who have > some experience with computers, and highly probable by person who has > access to additional hard disks, etc. I have never heard of one who had > to change filesystem type, and had no access to additional equipment. > > I don't want to say it is not possible, to provide such a function > safely. What I want to say is that kernel developers should not > complicate filesystem code without *very* good reason. I think that > providing on-the-fly conversion capability is not a good reason. Good > reason is when you can improve usability for many users and most of the > time, not when you ease one operation needed by very few users few times > in their life, especially when they can do what they need by just > transferring their data back and forth to another disk, or machine.
Ok, I forgot about enterprise users with lots of data, and probably lacking free space, so I missed a point.
-- "Unix IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are." -- Tollef Fog Heen
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