Robert White posted on Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:42:38 -0800 as excerpted: > TRUTH BE TOLD :: After two very "eventful" conversions not too long ago > I just don't do those any more. The total amount of time I "saved" by > not copying the files was in the negative numbers before I just copied > the files onto an external media and reformatted and restored.
While I was running reiserfs and thus wasn't a conversion candidate, I have basically the same opinion of the ext* -> btrfs conversion tool. It's for people who don't have the extra space resources necessary to do a full backup, wipe clean and set it up the way you like, then restore. That said, the conversion and subsequent btrfs troubleshooting has certainly been a "real world" learning experience for you (Patrik, not Robert as quoted above), and while I'd certainly start clean when I was really going to do it, for initially playing around, learning the tools, some troubleshooting, etc, and just to be able to say I've tried the conversion, I could easily see myself spending some time doing what you did, just learning the ropes, etc. When I was done playing and ready to do it for real, I'd wipe the playground and start clean, more confident in my setup and management since I had spent some time playing with it and familiarizing myself with how it worked and what might work best in terms of my own setup. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
