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From: Christian Mayrhuber <christian.mayrhuber@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Conversion from v3.6 to v4 of Reiserfs...
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 09:33:09 +0100
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Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> There is the program convertfs:
> 	http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/
> 
> I don't think it suports reiser4, but you could probably write a patch or
> ask the author nicely.  It's supposed to do in-place filesystem conversion
> by using a sparse loopback file.
> 
> I've only heard good things about it, but I've never used it.
> 
> -- Asheesh.
> 

convertfs is in debian testing/unstable, just to let you know.
You should have a look at:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=230995

I don't think it can handle reiser4, yet.
Reiser4 is not stable now, so if you care for your data I'd
stick with reiserfs v3.6 for now.

-- 
lg, Chris