Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 08 Aug 2003 17:05:15 +0400 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: reiserfs4 |
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Tomas Szepe wrote:
>>[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. > > > Are you sure that vmware does not affect the result?
-- Hans
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