Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:21:11 +0200 | From | Tomas Szepe <> | Subject | Re: reiserfs4 |
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> [green@namesys.com] > > > >Why do people ever want a "converter"? > > That's been discussed before. > > Because people don't have the resources (hard disk space, tape drives, > > money) to backup their data, and might still be interested in testing a > > new filesystem. They might be willing to take a risk with the new fs > > and converter. Amazing as it may sound, people do that. I am such a > > tester, and I'd find a converter to be a useful tool. But since the > > previous discussion on the subject concluded it'd be really hard to > > impossible to write one, I guess I'll have to settle for new hard drive(s). > > This is no longer true. > There is sort of "universal" fs convertor for linux that can convert almost > any fs to almost any other fs. > The only requirement seems to be that both fs types should have read/write support in Linux. > http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/
I'm afraid I cannot recommend using this tool.
A test conversion from reiserfs to ext3 (inside a vmware machine) screwed up the data real horrorshow: directory structure seems ok but file contents are apparently shifted.
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