From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yury Umanets Subject: Re: Converter program from V3 to V4 ? Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:21:03 +0400 Message-ID: <3EA6D98F.8080907@namesys.com> References: <50020.61.238.161.206.1051113325.squirrel@sml.dyndns.org> <3EA6AB24.6070705@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <3EA6AB24.6070705@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Hans Reiser Cc: Thomas Graham , reiserfs-list@namesys.com Hans Reiser wrote: > Thomas Graham wrote: > >> reiserfs 4 will be release soon, I got almost 90GB data on a HD that is >> using reiserfs3, how could I install v4 on this HD ? would it have a >> converter program to concert from V3 to V4 ? Thanks. >> >> >> >> > The converter program is called tar. Maybe someday we will write a > script to resize partitions incrementally as we copy data from one > partition to another.... > > Remember that filesystems take many years to stabilize to where V3 is > now, and V4 will be flaky when it first ships. Every bug we know how > to find will be fixed, but real users find bugs test suites don't. > There is the intersting approach called convertfs. http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/ -- Yury Umanets "We're flying high, we're watching the world passes by..."