Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932529AbWJLPCr (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:02:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932528AbWJLPCr (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:02:47 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:57519 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932529AbWJLPCq (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:02:46 -0400 Subject: Re: The Future of ReiserFS development From: Lee Revell To: roland Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <005a01c6edd9$7cfb7be0$962e8d52@aldipc> References: <005a01c6edd9$7cfb7be0$962e8d52@aldipc> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:03:40 -0400 Message-Id: <1160665420.24931.28.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 814 Lines: 23 On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 10:36 +0200, roland wrote: > >> What is the plan? Could i > >> migrate from reiserfs to another journaling filesystem? > > > >Of course: Simply backup, mkfs and restore! > > not that simple if you have hundreds of thousands or even millions of small > files ! > reiserfs is quite efficient in storing small files. > don`t know if there is anyfilesystem which is as efficient with this..... I thought reiserfs (aka reiser3) was in deep maintainence mode anyway? Why do you need to migrate away from it? Reiser4 however is another story... Lee - 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/