Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Aug 2003 23:02:20 -0600 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: reiserfs4 |
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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/
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