Ntfs2btrfs does in-place conversion of NTFS filesystem to the open-source Btrfs
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by ComputerGuru
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I found the link to Quibble, an open and extensible reverse engineering of the Windows kernel bootloader to be much more intriguing: https://github.com/maharmstone/quibble
by cryptonector
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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
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Is anyone here using BTRFS and can comment on its current-day stability? I used to read horror stories about it
by SomeoneOnTheWeb
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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
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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
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I tried this one before, resulted in a read-only disk. Hope it improves since then.
by the_hoser
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The degree of hold-my-beer here is off the charts.
by casey2
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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 johnea
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by tronicdude
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by rurban
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Why would someone do that? NTFS is stable, faster than btrfs and has all the same features.
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