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From: mdew <mdew@mdew.dyndns.org>
To: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
Cc: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>, Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2@cornell.edu>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: reiserfs4
Date: 08 Aug 2003 03:01:19 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1060268478.30293.14.camel@mdew> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030807132111.GB7094@louise.pinerecords.com>

On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 01:21, Tomas Szepe wrote:

> > This is no longer true.
> > There is sort of "universal" fs convertor for linux that can convert almost
> > any fs to almost any other fs.
> > The only requirement seems to be that both fs types should have read/write support in Linux.
> > http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/
> 
> I'm afraid I cannot recommend using this tool.
> 
> A test conversion from reiserfs to ext3 (inside a vmware machine)
> screwed up the data real horrorshow: directory structure seems
> ok but file contents are apparently shifted.

I'm looking at converting (sometime soon) a JFS system to XFS using
convertfs, I'm hoping this "converting" process will come out bug-free. 
Other than backing up all the data, and re-formating to XFS, would any
one have suggestings?

convertfs /dev/hde1 jfs xfs

-- 
mdew <mdew@mdew.dyndns.org>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-07 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-07  1:05 reiserfs4 Vladimir Lazarenko
2003-08-07  5:02 ` reiserfs4 Andreas Dilger
2003-08-07  5:12   ` reiserfs4 Ivan Gyurdiev
2003-08-07  7:27     ` reiserfs4 Oleg Drokin
2003-08-07 13:21       ` reiserfs4 Tomas Szepe
2003-08-07 14:23         ` reiserfs4 Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-08-07 14:25           ` reiserfs4 Oleg Drokin
2003-08-07 16:31             ` reiserfs4 Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-08-07 14:34           ` reiserfs4 Nikita Danilov
2003-08-07 15:01         ` mdew [this message]
2003-08-08 13:05         ` reiserfs4 Hans Reiser
2003-08-08 16:23           ` reiserfs4 Tomas Szepe
2003-08-07 15:20       ` reiserfs4 Ivan Gyurdiev
2003-08-07 10:00   ` reiserfs4 Michael Buesch
2003-08-07 14:00 ` reiserfs4 Hans Reiser

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