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 22:24:51 +0400 Message-ID: <3EA6DA73.4020507@namesys.com> References: <50020.61.238.161.206.1051113325.squirrel@sml.dyndns.org> <3EA6AB24.6070705@namesys.com> <3EA6D98F.8080907@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: <3EA6D98F.8080907@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Yury Umanets Cc: Hans Reiser , Thomas Graham , reiserfs-list@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..."