Re: ext2 -> reiserfs conversion?

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 
> 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
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>                  \  would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
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Yes, it was the fear of a long debugging cycle that made me decide that tar over
VFS was the most reliable conversion method, and to not attempt to do more.  If
someone was to write a tar plus resize based script, that might be reliable, and
I would be interested to see it.

Hans