From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:04:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:04:32 -0400 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.0.238]:13832 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:04:20 -0400 Message-ID: <3B8D2EB1.14B9C3A@namesys.com> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:04:33 +0400 From: Hans Reiser Organization: Namesys X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Dilger CC: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ext2 -> reiserfs conversion? In-Reply-To: <20010829114126.G24270@turbolinux.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > -- > 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 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ 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