Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 23:02:20 -0600
From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Vladimir Lazarenko <vlad@lazarenko.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: reiserfs4
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On Aug 07, 2003  03:05 +0200, Vladimir Lazarenko wrote:
> Is there going to be some kind of a converter for new reiserfs version?
> I'm running 2.4.22-rc1 now, with its current reiserfs implementation, and I 
> heard many good things about reiserfs v4, would it be possible to convert 
> filesystems without data loss? 
> 
> It's going to be a major pain if I'll have to back things up and reinitialize 
> partitions...

Why do people ever want a "converter"?

If you are converting your current filesystem to an _experimental_
filesystem, wouldn't you want to have a backup in case the new filesystem
had a bug in it?

Considering that such a conversion tool would be used only very rarely,
wouldn't you want to make a backup in case the conversion tool was broken?

The safest conversion is to make a backup with tar or similar, and then
restore it after a formatting the new filesystem.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/

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