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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext2 -> reiserfs conversion?
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 11:41:26 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010829114126.G24270@turbolinux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0108291640540.4463-100000@mustard.heime.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0108291640540.4463-100000@mustard.heime.net>

On Aug 29, 2001  16:44 +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> does any of you know if there are any plans to create an ext22reiserfs
> utility?

It is probably more dangerous and difficult than it is worth.  Use a
backup/restore, that way you also have a backup in case there is a
problem with the conversion.

Since you would ALWAYS do a backup before performing such an operation
(right????) then doing the restore to the newly formatted reiserfs
partition would probably take less time than any kind of conversion
would take (and be a LOT more robust, as well as doing a "defrag"),
so you are way better off to do it that way.

Cheers, Andreas
-- 
Andreas Dilger  \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto,
                 \  would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/               -- Dogbert


  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-29 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-29 14:44 ext2 -> reiserfs conversion? Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2001-08-29 17:41 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2001-08-29 18:04   ` Hans Reiser
2001-08-29 17:42 ` Hans Reiser
2001-09-05 15:36   ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-09-12 23:07     ` Pavel Machek
2001-09-14  7:47       ` Jan Kara

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