XFS has been officially merged

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:37:47 PDT 2004


No.  AFAIK, there is no filesystem in existence that will 
non-destructive convert into another.  ext2 & ext3 are really the same 
filesystem(s), one with meta-data, the other without.

m.w.chang wrote:
> does the current XFS release have a single command for dummies to 
> convert the root partition from ext2fs into XFS without one bit of 
> error? ext3 doesn't invole a reformat when installing it.
> 
> Andrew Mathews wrote:
> 
>> For the rest of you XFS filesystem fans, Linus has merged XFS into the 
>> kernel. <quote>
> 

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