From: Yury Umanets <umka@namesys.com>
To: Yury Umanets <umka@namesys.com>
Cc: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>,
Thomas Graham <lkthomas@sml.dyndns.org>,
reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: Converter program from V3 to V4 ?
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:24:51 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EA6DA73.4020507@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EA6D98F.8080907@namesys.com>
Yury Umanets wrote:
> 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/
>
>
=============================================================
convertfs v1.3
Convert filesystem on device from this type to this type.
Usage: convertfs device from_fs_type to_fs_type
Filesystem types: minix xfs jfs reiserfs ext2 ext3
Example: convertfs /dev/hda2 ext2 reiserfs
=============================================================
--
Yury Umanets
"We're flying high, we're watching the world passes by..."
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-23 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-23 15:55 Converter program from V3 to V4 ? Thomas Graham
2003-04-23 9:36 ` Matthias Andree
2003-04-23 15:03 ` Hans Reiser
2003-04-23 18:21 ` Yury Umanets
2003-04-23 18:24 ` Yury Umanets [this message]
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