From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Vladimir Lazarenko <vlad@lazarenko.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: reiserfs4
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 23:02:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030806230220.I7752@schatzie.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308070305.51868.vlad@lazarenko.net>; from vlad@lazarenko.net on Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 03:05:51AM +0200
On Aug 07, 2003 03:05 +0200, Vladimir Lazarenko wrote:
> Is there going to be some kind of a converter for new reiserfs version?
> I'm running 2.4.22-rc1 now, with its current reiserfs implementation, and I
> heard many good things about reiserfs v4, would it be possible to convert
> filesystems without data loss?
>
> It's going to be a major pain if I'll have to back things up and reinitialize
> partitions...
Why do people ever want a "converter"?
If you are converting your current filesystem to an _experimental_
filesystem, wouldn't you want to have a backup in case the new filesystem
had a bug in it?
Considering that such a conversion tool would be used only very rarely,
wouldn't you want to make a backup in case the conversion tool was broken?
The safest conversion is to make a backup with tar or similar, and then
restore it after a formatting the new filesystem.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-07 5:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-07 1:05 reiserfs4 Vladimir Lazarenko
2003-08-07 5:02 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2003-08-07 5:12 ` reiserfs4 Ivan Gyurdiev
2003-08-07 7:27 ` reiserfs4 Oleg Drokin
2003-08-07 13:21 ` reiserfs4 Tomas Szepe
2003-08-07 14:23 ` reiserfs4 Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-08-07 14:25 ` reiserfs4 Oleg Drokin
2003-08-07 16:31 ` reiserfs4 Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-08-07 14:34 ` reiserfs4 Nikita Danilov
2003-08-07 15:01 ` reiserfs4 mdew
2003-08-08 13:05 ` reiserfs4 Hans Reiser
2003-08-08 16:23 ` reiserfs4 Tomas Szepe
2003-08-07 15:20 ` reiserfs4 Ivan Gyurdiev
2003-08-07 10:00 ` reiserfs4 Michael Buesch
2003-08-07 14:00 ` reiserfs4 Hans Reiser
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