Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:04:33 +0400 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: ext2 -> reiserfs conversion? |
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Andreas Dilger wrote: > > On Aug 29, 2001 16:44 +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > > does any of you know if there are any plans to create an ext22reiserfs > > utility? > > It is probably more dangerous and difficult than it is worth. Use a > backup/restore, that way you also have a backup in case there is a > problem with the conversion. > > Since you would ALWAYS do a backup before performing such an operation > (right????) then doing the restore to the newly formatted reiserfs > partition would probably take less time than any kind of conversion > would take (and be a LOT more robust, as well as doing a "defrag"), > so you are way better off to do it that way. > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, > \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" > http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Yes, it was the fear of a long debugging cycle that made me decide that tar over VFS was the most reliable conversion method, and to not attempt to do more. If someone was to write a tar plus resize based script, that might be reliable, and I would be interested to see it.
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