by ComputerGuru on 12/1/24, 5:48 PM
by cryptonector on 12/1/24, 1:06 AM
Thinking of how I'd do this for ZFS... I think I'd do something like: add a layer that can read other filesystem types and synthesize ZFS block pointers, then ZFS could read other filesystems, and as it writes it could rewrite the whole thing slowly. If ZFS had block pointer rewrite (and I've explained here before why it does not and cannot have BP rewrite caoabilities, not being a proper CAS filesystem), one could just make it rewrite the whole thing to finish the conversion.
by oDot on 12/1/24, 5:36 PM
Is anyone here using BTRFS and can comment on its current-day stability? I used to read horror stories about it
by SomeoneOnTheWeb on 12/1/24, 6:48 PM
I would have needed that like 2 months ago, when I had to format a hard drive with more than 10TB of data into from NTFS... ^^
Nic project!
by Dwedit on 11/30/24, 10:46 PM
I would be very surprised if it supported files that are under LZX compression.
(Not to be confused with Windows 2000-era file compression, this is something you need to activate with "compact.exe /C /EXE:LZX (filename)")
by npn on 12/1/24, 7:05 AM
I tried this one before, resulted in a read-only disk. Hope it improves since then.
by the_hoser on 11/30/24, 9:26 PM
The degree of hold-my-beer here is off the charts.
by casey2 on 12/1/24, 6:13 AM
Very cool, but nobody will hear about this until at least a week after they format their ntfs drives that they have been putting off formatting for 2 years
by rurban on 12/1/24, 5:54 AM
Why would someone do that? NTFS is stable, faster than btrfs and has all the same features.