Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:21:11 +0200
From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
To: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Cc: Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2@cornell.edu>, Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: reiserfs4
Message-ID: <20030807132111.GB7094@louise.pinerecords.com>
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> [green@namesys.com]
> 
> > >Why do people ever want a "converter"?
> > That's been discussed before.
> > Because people don't have the resources (hard disk space, tape drives, 
> > money)  to backup their data, and might still be interested in testing a 
> > new filesystem. They might be willing to take a risk with the new fs 
> > and converter. Amazing as it may sound, people do that. I am such a 
> > tester, and I'd find a converter to be a useful tool. But since the 
> > previous discussion on the subject concluded it'd be really hard to 
> > impossible to write one, I guess I'll have to settle for new hard drive(s).
> 
> 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.

-- 
Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
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